link-dead: [MUD] adj. Said of a {MUD} character who has frozen in place because of a dropped Internet connection.

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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...
• sucking mud: [Applied Data Research] adj. (also `pumping mud') Crashed or {wedged}.
  Usually said of a machine that provides some service...
• mudhead: n. Commonly used to refer to a {MUD} player who eats,
  sleeps, and breathes MUD. Mudheads have been known...
• 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...
• VR: // [MUD] n. On-line abbrev for {virtual reality},
  as opposed to {RL}. -- The AI Hackers...
• 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...
• 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...
• RL: // [MUD community] n. Real Life. "Firiss laughs in RL" means that Firiss's player is laughing.
  Oppose {VR}. -- The AI Hackers...
• 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...