If you’ve ever wondered how the name Bluetooth came about, I’ve got the answer.
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Surprisingly it doesn’t have anything to do with they color of the logo being blue or the symbol looking like a set of tooth. Bluetooth is named after the legendary Danish Viking King Harald Blåtand. Blåtand was an expert at bringing people together for non-violent negotiations. The way he used words went so far as uniting Denmark and Norway as a single territory. The English translation of Blåtand is blue-tooth.
According to one of the developers Jim Kardach, “the legend suited the name for the program. Harald had united Denmark and turned the Danes to Christians”. Kardach also created a PowerPoint foil with a version of the Runic stone where King Harald held a cellphone in one hand and a notebook in the other hand with the translation of the Runes:
“Harald united Denmark and Norway”
“Harald thinks that mobile PC’s and cellular phones should seamlessly communicate”
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The name was perfect and the logo for Bluetooth depicts Blåtand’s initials inscribed in Runic symbols.
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