who and why did they call it Bluetooth?

[BOMBEDHEAD]

who and why did they call it Bluetooth?

[cdover]

I believe it comes from a Viking who ate blueberries so much that it made his teeth blue...pretty random IMO.

[jalu]

Yup, Ericsson named it that. Swedish pirate iirc.

[mundets]

Actually, when the technology was being developed, one of the devleopers had a special distinction. He had a blue tooth.
When they were trying to actually name the technology, they couldn't think of anything to call it that sounded half decent (they tried (SansWires, AirData, etc...).......
So, to think of something funny, they decided to call it Bluetooth, after one of the developer's blue tooth.









Haha, just kidding! I really don't know.......

[Berserk-KW]

"The Bluetooth Protocol, named after the Viking Crusader Harald Bluetooth who unified Denmark and Norway in the tenth century, is a wireless technology that uses low-power, short-range radio frequencies to communicate between two or more devices, Bluetooth uses 2.45GHz." - Data Communications & Computer Networks: A Business User's Approach By Curt M. White


...
i'm taking this in my university :D

[mundets]

Cool!....
but why?

[TheZodiac]

he did the communicating negotioations between the contrys.... get it?...... c-o-m-m-u-n-i-c-a-t-i-o-n-s .. neat.... so I guess he saty in the middle and translated for them :) get it - short range :-D

[mundets]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
i have been enlightened!
lol;)

[BOMBEDHEAD]

Originally posted by TheZodiac
he did the communicating negotioations between the contrys.... get it?...... c-o-m-m-u-n-i-c-a-t-i-o-n-s .. neat.... so I guess he saty in the middle and translated for them :) get it - short range :-D
nice one ode, you can clearly spell communications, how did you spell 'contrys' again?

no i dont get it...c-o-m-m-u-n-i-c-a-t-i-o-n-s ?????

please enlighten me too!

[Michael]

Originally posted by mundets
Cool!....
but why? Because a name like Bluetooth is much easier to remember and catchier than 802.15.

[BOMBEDHEAD]

Originally posted by Michael
Because a name like Bluetooth is much easier to remember and catchier than 802.15.

but wouldnt pig face, or tea leaf, be easy to remember as well?

if it was called 'ear fax', you would remember that too, because you have been told what it is called...get me?

just a bit of psyche for all you mentalists.

[Valdo]

I've read an article about Bluetooth..........
iIt said that the developers were trying to name it as "wolf's fang"
(in chinese) :confused:
but after a short meeting they agreed to name it as
"bluetooth":D

[Arne]

I feel that I as a Dane must put some facts on the table. Harald Blåtand - Blåtand is "Bluetooth in Danish - was the second Danish King in the line that leads directly up to our present Queen. Ok we have changed from one Royal Family to another once or twice - but the monarchy has been unbroken since the father of old Bluetooth - his Name was Gorm den gamle - "Gorm the old one"
Bluetooth was not so much a crusader - he was a unifier and a man of the church. He became King instead of his brother Svend - who spend too much time on raids abroad and therefore was out powered by his brother in the home front.
So yes there are some historical facts behind the use of the name - but as our Administrator is in on - most of all it is an original name that you don’t easily forget