Comment by DonHopkins

The tradition of "reticulating splines" started in Maxis games:

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Reticulating_splines

And now lots of other games and web sites do it too, even compiling Firefox:

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Reticulating_splines/Usage_outsid...

The "Stage 5" evacuation completion detection timer in Austin Powers could have used a tad longer debouncing delay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YewcrxOQNvk