The name was inspired by the Firefly television series in which a Wave is an electronic communication (often consisting of a video call or video message). During the developer preview, a number of references were made to the series such as Lars Rasmussen replying to a message with "shiny", a word commonly used in the series to mean cool or good, and the crash message of Wave being a popular quotation from the series: "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!".
During an event in Amsterdam, The Netherlands it became apparent that the sixty strong team that is currently working on Wave in Sydney, Australia, use Joss Whedon-related references to describe, among others, the Sandbox-version of Wave (which is called Dollhouse after the current TV-series by Firefly-producer Joss Whedon which is aired on Fox in the USA). The development of external extensions is codenamed "Serenity", after the spaceship used in Firefly and the 2005 motion-picture spin-off of Firefly, Serenity. To prevent copyright issues with Fox, Universal Pictures and Whedon's production company Mutant Enemy, Google would not confirm any reference to Firefly, Joss Whedon or Serenity.
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