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#1 2011-11-18 11:07:59
- my-chemical-romance
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So......What does MIT do?
I've heard MIT on TV a lot lately, and I was wondering what big things they've actually done, seeming I just know about scratch.
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#2 2011-11-18 11:13:09
- maxskywalker
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
It's a got a pretty huge variety of stuff, including Scratch and such things in it's software area, several other countless and projects just as original as Scratch in other fields, and if I remember correctly, MIT (I might have gotten mixed up with something else, but I think it's MIT) has managed to link objects using quantum entanglement (which is pretty amazing). More on quantum entanglement here.
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#3 2011-11-18 11:15:52
- agscratcher
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
What has MIT done?
Gordon Freeman.
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#4 2011-11-18 11:29:27
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#5 2011-11-18 11:38:49
- undefeatedgames
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
They also have engineering school, a medical school, and others
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#7 2011-11-18 12:42:20
- veggieman001
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
It's a university
Y'know, where people get educated
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#8 2011-11-18 12:51:37
- my-chemical-romance
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
PW132 wrote:
It's a university, but lots of stuff has also been invented there.
(The first video game was made at MIT!)
That's probably where I heard it from.
The tubes that made the game (naughts and crosses) once got a moth trapped in them and it stopped working, that's where the term "bug" came from when developing games.
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#9 2011-11-18 12:55:27
- veggieman001
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
my-chemical-romance wrote:
PW132 wrote:
It's a university, but lots of stuff has also been invented there.
(The first video game was made at MIT!)That's probably where I heard it from.
The tubes that made the game (naughts and crosses) once got a moth trapped in them and it stopped working, that's where the term "bug" came from when developing games.
It actually was around for much longer before then, with Thomas Edison using it in a letter to a colleague in 1878.
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#10 2011-11-18 18:26:41
Re: So......What does MIT do?
my-chemical-romance wrote:
PW132 wrote:
It's a university, but lots of stuff has also been invented there.
(The first video game was made at MIT!)That's probably where I heard it from.
The tubes that made the game (naughts and crosses) once got a moth trapped in them and it stopped working, that's where the term "bug" came from when developing games.
Uh...it was a shooting game in space, not tictactoe.
SCRATCH 2.0 OHHHHH MANNNNNNN
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#11 2011-11-18 18:34:51
Re: So......What does MIT do?
PW132 wrote:
my-chemical-romance wrote:
PW132 wrote:
It's a university, but lots of stuff has also been invented there.
(The first video game was made at MIT!)That's probably where I heard it from.
The tubes that made the game (naughts and crosses) once got a moth trapped in them and it stopped working, that's where the term "bug" came from when developing games.Uh...it was a shooting game in space, not tictactoe.
Also, the computer it ran on did not use vaccum tubes.
SCRATCH 2.0 OHHHHH MANNNNNNN
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#12 2011-11-18 18:36:05
Re: So......What does MIT do?
agscratcher wrote:
What has MIT done?
Gordon Freeman.
there is no possible way to express my satisfaction with the above post
its just that awesome
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#13 2011-11-18 19:41:38
- MoreGamesNow
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
You think the Scratch team will put in a good word for me if I apply there? 
"Cogito ergo sum" -- I think, therefore I am
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#14 2011-11-18 19:59:12
- Earthboundjeff
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
Probably not.
What is MIT? The undeniable proof that my state is the best out of all the 50.
MAFTW!
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#16 2011-11-18 20:15:11
- samtwheels
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Re: So......What does MIT do?
fg123 wrote:
It's an university quite highly ranked in the Ivy League.
MIT isn't Ivy League. Ivy League was originally for sports, they just all happened to be great schools.
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