Hackers Rickroll MIT’s Great Dome

by Scott Beale on September 20, 2009 · 4 comments

MIT Rick Roll

MIT hackers, who have a long history of campus pranks, Rickrolled the Great Dome by adding the first seven notes of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” to the scaffolding surrounding the dome, creating a sheet music version of a Rickroll.

via Gina Trapani

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1 romulusnr September 20, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Clearly the next step is for someone to create a piano roll of the song, which would be the Rickroll Roll. Now all that’s left is to find a working player piano to sneak it into….

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2 WALT! September 20, 2009 at 7:28 pm

I am so hoping Caltech did this.

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3 Mark September 22, 2009 at 7:24 am

They got the rhythm wrong…

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4 Andrew October 21, 2009 at 11:16 pm

It also doesn’t really work with the number of lines and whatnot… Kind of a failed prank if you ask me.

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