Talk:Yoyodyne

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There was article in the late 1960s in Time Magazine, that Yoyodyne was a bogus clandestine US Government company. Not sure which issue. How does one research incorporated companies by name and date of incorporation? 98.204.141.159 (talk) 23:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC) drbobscanoe@gmail.com 17 June 2015

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In the belief that this article should be kept, see this and this. Probably not WP:RS as is, but there are some interesting threads to unpick just the same. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 19:49, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

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I have removed the following examples from the article, per reasons / policies cited in the AFD. Also, WP:V, etc.

Many technical works, such as Cricket Liu's DNS and BIND (O'Reilly), Per Cederqvist's Version Management with CVS, Jesse Vincent's RT Essentials (O'Reilly), and the GNU General Public License version 2 use Yoyodyne as a company name in their examples. The Internet domain name www.yoyodyne.com was allocated by Internet software designer TGV Inc. as a "fake" domain name for use in DNS configuration examples. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:13, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Tim Powers' fantasy novel Last Call mentions Yoyodyne as a company in the Los Angeles area that "manufactures ... stuff".
 * In the German miniature wargame Spacelords, House Yoyodyne is a faction with a culture almost identical to that of feudal Japan.
 * In Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg, a fictional tape drive manufactured by Yoyodyne Systems is mentioned in passing as an example ("a Foobar model 37 computer, and we're trying to hook up a Yoyodyne tape to it").
 * A company named Yoyodyne is briefly mentioned in the HBO series Silicon Valley as a nod to the GNU General Public License. It appears to be a technology enterprise of some sort located in San Francisco.
 * In the novel Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams, Yoyodyne is the parent company of the manufacturer of a fictional type of computer core made of liquid crystal.
 * The 1990 film The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter used the name Yoyodyne Corp. on a spray-paint can label, wished for by the main character.