🔒 Closed The Origin of the name Bluetooth

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The term Bluetooth comes from the epithet of the 10th-century Danish king You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., who gathered the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom through non-violent discussion, unified Denmark and Norway, and was renowned as a great communicator. No one knows the true origin of King Harald’s soubriquet, but historians speculate that he had a decayed or diseased tooth that rendered it dark in color.
He like blueberries so much,they stained his teeth blue. When the founders of Bluetooth decided on a name for technology designed to unite otherwise disparate wireless devices, naming it after the person responsible for unifying Scandinavia made a lot of sense. They even made Bluetooth logo the combined Younger Futhark runes for his initials ᚼ (H) and ᛒ(B).








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