Once, long ago, I was a fledgling C programmer working on the TinyMUCK game server. My mentor had released the 2.0 version with MUF, and I had implemented the port to SunOS (where a dereferenced NULL pointer does not return 0, but SIGSEGV: that was a lot of fun to debug!)

Later on I was working with another fellow to kind of bring the codebase up-to-date, and we found it necessary to implement a new database dump format (the database was normally 100% in RAM and then "dumped out" to a flat file for checkpoints and shutdowns.)

So I made the database changes, and then I christened the format "Christina Applegate TinyMUCK Dump Format" because she was the girl/woman of my dreams at that point in time (prior to Melissa Joan Hart taking over).

It is unclear if she ever found out about this particular usage. But last time I checked, this codebase was still extant, and so, someone somewhere may still be running a TinyMUCK server that utilizes a unique format dedicated to Christina Applegate herself.

Haha nice find ! also interestingly the loop they have via the plugin, is not really the concept intended since it doesn’t persist across sessions