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Nonsense technobabble used in a production context. Reticulating splines started off as an in-joke at Maxis and grew to fame with the widespread popularity of The Sims. While it does have a "real" meaning, this definition isn't actually correct in the context of its use. It's really a programming joke. Reticulating splines is essentially filler. [Don't want] to describe what's holding up the program? It's reticulating splines. Why isn't [the Internet] working? The splines aren't [reticulated]. Heck, don't want to explain your calculus assignment? We're reticulating splines this week. See also processor gremlins for the computer hardware equivalent.
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