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Have you ever wondered, where does the word “Bluetooth” come from? Honestly, I haven’t until a few days ago. Though, in an art class at college, I learnt why they named this wireless connectivity technology, Bluetooth, and I think it’s pretty interesting.
Harald Blåtand or Harold the Bluetooth (935-986), was the king of Denmark from around 958, and he is best known for his unification of Denmark and Norway.
Ericsson, a Scandinavian company, was the first to develop the bluetooth specification. Also Nokia has been researching on this technology also.Along with other 3 major companies In Feb 1998, Ericsson, Nokia, IBM, Toshiba and Intel formed a Special Interest Group (SIG). As the role of Scandinavian technology was higher on the developpement of such technology, came up with this name because this technology was ment to unite the world, as in a sense did Harold Blåtand for Scandinavia. So this name fit wery well to Sweden based Ericsson and Finland based Nokia.
Had Harold I of Denmark a bluetooth?
No, the name "Blåtand" was probably taken from two old Danish words, 'blå' meaning dark skinned and 'tan' meaning great man. But in english it means bluetooth. So the king had nothing to do with a blue tooth.
Why I studied this in an art class? Harold the Bluetooth, who also christianized the country, raised Jelling Stones which present the process of christianization. The stone has a figure of Christ on one side and on another side a serpent wrapped around a lion. Apparently, this stone is one of earliest marks of christian symbology. It is important as the early symbology had only 2 dimensions and afterwords it gained perspective and detailed descriptive narrations.
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