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[reply]

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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)[reply]

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

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.

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| reply here} 08:13, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]