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• link-dead adj. [MUD] The state a player is in when they kill their connection to a MUD without leaving it properly.
  The player is then commonly left as a statue in the game, and is only removed after a certain period of time (an hour on most MUDs)....
• ucking mud: [Applied Data Research] adj. (also `pumping mud') Crashed or {wedged}.
  Usually said of a machine that provides some service to a network, such as a file server....
• mudhead: n. Commonly used to refer to a {MUD} player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD.
  Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc....
• IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• VR: // [MUD] n. On-line abbrev for {virtual reality}, as opposed to {RL}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• fepped out: /fept owt/ adj. The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a Front-End Processor called a `FEP' (compare sense 2 of {box}).
  When the main processor gets {wedged}, the FEP takes control of the keyboard and screen....
• virtual reality: n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation.
  See {cyberspace}. 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and `true confessions' magazines....
• RL: // [MUD community] n. Real Life. "Firiss laughs in RL" means that Firiss's player is laughing.
  Oppose {VR}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• bug-compatible: adj. Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or {misfeature}s in other programs or (esp.
  ) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1....