List of usage outside of Maxis games[]
- Can appear randomly in the loading screen for World of Goo levels.
- PocketSmith - a financial planning tool.
- At the point of check-out, when purchasing items from the Cards Against Humanity online store.
- Mozy, a data backup program.
- EA Sports Rory McIlroy PGA Tour 2015 video game.
- Khan Academy, an educational website.
- Udacity, an educational website.
- As a splash screen on Minecraft, a first-person sandbox game.
- While loading graph data on Google's Project Fi.
- While loading lists in project management tracking software Asana.
- Sporcle, a quiz website.
- At the end of the Ubuntu installation process.
- Hacknet, shown while first starting a game.
- In the logfiles of OpenREPOSE Webfront end servers.
- While loading in social media app Timehop.
- While compiling Firefox (or Thunderbird) from source.
- While loading the User Guide on a PlayStation 4 console.
- Loading screens of Dead Space 3.
- In an article by Martin Fowler, on the concept of Feature Toggles in software development.
- This is the article by A/B Smartly, on the basics of Feature Flags in modern software development.
- Chip's Challenge 2 as the title of Level 43.
- As text on loading screens on Two Dots.
- When uploading products using WooCommerce CSV Import.
- While compiling Cyanogenmod from source.
- At the end of Docker Machine creation process.
- Videostream for Chromecast has it as a loading text.
- While loading a table in Roll20.
- While loading past social media content in the mobile app Timehop.
- While loading levels during the mobile game Two Dots [twodots.mobile].
- The creative team behind PBS Idea Channel were referred to as "reticulated splines" during the credit sequence of their episode on The Sims.
- The loading text on Wusoup.
- When starting Bamboo server.
- On the tech website The Verge whenever a poll is shown on the article, at the end the text will read "Reticulating poll splines".
- When loading Kitomba takes longer than expected.
- When loading Kerbal Space Program.
- When loading the Timehop App.
- While creating a bank account with Simple.
- Reported during stat collections in the drone racing firmware RaceFlight.
- When loading the When I Work mobile app.
- When loading Discord.
- During the packing process for an Android Open Source Project distribution.
- When loading the editing window on The Sims Wiki.
- When installing the Adobe Flash Player Projector on Mac OS.
- When upgrading a Robotic HQ in Offworld Trading Company.
- When loading the Red Alert mod in OpenRA.
- When loading the map in Armello.
- When loading a map in Lego Worlds.
- When viewing the main loading screen of OZ: Hidden Kingdom, along with other Oz themed phrases.
- When playing a quest in Disney's "Club Penguin Island".
- During the Two Dots loading screen.
- When loading the Mass Effect Andromeda: Apex HQ mobile app.
- At the end of the instructions on how to deploy an app using AWS Amplify.
- An idle message for Necron cities in Warhammer 40,000: Gladius.
- Listed as one of the steps in the loading process of Cell To Singularity.
- A region of Black Marsh is named the "Reticulated Spine" in The Elder Scrolls Online.
- When loading Slack after a full reload or setting up a new workspace.
- When loading Contentful.
- Spoken by the security system in Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach when resetting DJ Music Man
- Can appear randomly when unlocking a new beer licence in Deep Rock Galactic.
- When loading a report in the popular electronic medical records software Epic Hyperspace.
- When installing AtlasOS
- Can appear randomly when loading the analytics data chart on spacergif.org
- During the SBURB loading screen in Homestuck.
- Can appear randomly when loading the YNAB app.
- Part of the initialization message in the Infinite Backrooms eternal mode AI chat.
- Don't Starve will use the world generation message "reticulating pines".
- Shown on the loading screen of virtual machines on CYRIN, an educational cyber security website