ᚼᛒ: Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Jelling Stones, thousand-year-old Viking runestones, sit in the town of Jelling in Denmark. They tell the tale of Harald Bluetooth: one of the first kings of Denmark. Here's why his name is on your phone.
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I was waiting for you to pull up a third, comedy-sized, hood at some point in that video
hahahahahah that would be awesome
Me too
How is there 2k likes but 2 (well, 3) replies?
@@davidseddon2157 did you say 5?
primuszoon did you say 6?
Did you know? Bluetooth was invented by Harald Bluetooth in 965 when he tried to connect Denmark and Norway twice at the same time.
That’s Epic.
oh my god stop
Get your swords, men! The puritans are pairing!
@Maxx B. “Disconnected”
But range was too long. Fortunately 1000 years later Intel Engineer made it possible
You said the glass is to keep vandals out, but what about goths and celts?
Nice...
qwertzy121212 And Huns?
best history joke on here!
you win *ALL* the internets my friend!
qwertzy121212 Not to mention Lombards, Franks and Saxons. We really don't want them around that stone.
English speakers: yes, I know, Jelling kind of sounds like "Yelling". Leave your jokes in this thread. Danish speakers: I'm deliberately mangling the stress in the word to make it sound less like "Yelling" to try and minimise those jokes. Sorry.
Tom Scott hello Tom
Tom Scott That's a fairly good pronunciation :)
Sorry for our wonderful weather btw x)
As a Dane, I officially approve any Jelling Stone/Jellingstens jokes! Let the "Yelling" commence!
It's very similar and the only real difference in pronunciation is a very momentary break between "yell" and "ing". And more of a soft sound on the J.
You did well and I'm proud to have had you visit our lovely country.
I guess Yelling was the short-range communication method when they didn't have Bluetooth :)
So, Danes had Bluetooth 1000 years ago...
They must have got it from ancient aliens.
Pack Guar Heh. That ancient aliens guy from history channel must be so wet at the thought.
I believe you mean "The Danes". Danish is a language... It's like calling people from the USA "English" because that's the language we speak. :) #TMYK
Guido Sarducci You are correct. My mistake.
Meme incoming
www.openminds.tv/wp-content/uploads/I-am-not-saying.jpg
What does it mean then when my phone says "do you want to turn Bluetooth on?" :\
its asking if you're into necrophilia and want to get freaky with harald bluetooth.
Shawn Pitman
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*Edit:* Why is the FBI here
@@sara-n5q DU forstod ik joken min kære ven
Viking invasion
oh my
i can now thank my mother for spending our summer vacation to see that freaking stone. I touched it before it was in glass. wohooo. I wanted to go to legoland instead but still
I didn't make it to Legoland. One day.
Tom Scott Legoland is fine, but when you go there some time, please let us Danish fans know.
MibMab So you all can turn up wearing red t-shirts?
Legoland isn't much Lego.
@@anselmschueler bruh
If anybody else had told me there was a Harald Bluetooth, I might have raised an eyebrow and asked them if they were making it up.
UnqualifiedAdvice Bluetooth wasn't his real name. It was common for the Vikings to give their Kings nickname Haralds son had the name Sweyn Forkbeard because of his unusual beard, and Harald was called Bluetooth from half of his teeth being "blue" or rather gray from fighting and such
The name isn't the unbelievable part. It just sounds like the random junk I'd make up to explain the name "bluetooth" for wireless technology :P
UnqualifiedAdvice and in another 1000 years historians will marvel how a danish medeival king invented Bluetooth without even having mobile phone.....
I actually always heard that it was just the inventor's surname. I had no idea it was a reference to some other guy's surname.
...why are you so worked up about it? Sometimes things DO get named after their inventor and so it seemed a perfectly logical reason. Chill out dude.
The depiction of Jesus on the stone is also rather interesting. It's a amalgam of Norse and Christian symbolism. You can see the two cultures/religions merging. Jesus is in a position as if hanging on a cross, but instead of the cross he hanging in what looks like a tangle of branches, which is possibly a reference to Odin hanging from Yggdrasill.
I'm reminded of the Vodun/Vodou (originator of voodoo) similarity to the christian faith.
To the point where many Vodun practitioners would have pictures of Christian saints and use christian symbolism and names in rituals.
One of the most interesting cases of syncretism there is, imho.
MicroBlogganism that's typical for the period; there are no Christian festivals that don't take the ideas or dates on earlier non-Christian festivals, even Christmas is celebrate on the feast of Mithras (just look him up and see the similarities with Jesus).
The Jelling stone Jesus is also in danish passports, nice bit of history I like it, even though I'm not a christian :)
Oh, that depends on where and when you are (in my opinion,) +Nøderak . Christianity definitely adopted already existing holy days as a means to get more people on board. However, when you say "Deutsch" I read that as "German," which I don't quite agree with. I definitely agree that several details of Christmas were "borrowed" from one form of Germanic paganism or another, from what I've heard specifically the Midwinter Sacrifice or Yule Blot (and the Nordics[?] still retain the word Jul for Christmas). However, the only thing I know to have been taken from the Germans concerning Christmas (at least in the English speaking world) is the Christmas tree.
Also, if we're talking about time before 1054 CE the Catholic/Orthodox schism hadn't been formalised yet, so, formally, there were no Catholics as we think of them today.
There's also a really good story of how Jesus got his white shirt. It was mostly a propaganda tool to make him look wealthy and associate Christianity with wealth which is kinda counter intuitive but I guess the Vikings didn't have Jantelaw yet. And apparently if you were baptized you would get a white shirt.
Fun fact: This is not the only rune stone mentioning Harald Bluetooth. Outside of Ericsson's offices in Lund, Sweden, there is a stone with the inscription "Ericsson Mobile Communications AB erected this stone to honor the memory of Harald Blåtand, who gave his name to a new technology for wireless mobile communication" (roughly translated from runic Swedish).
I've often wondered how long it would take to explain Bluetooth to Harald Bluetooth, and what steps you'd have to go through.
Your Majesty, this contraption enables you and your loyal lords to communicate without pagers holding these very convenient slates.
Honestly? Probably around as long as it would take for a kid who knows barely anything about science to learn it. You’d probably have to start from the very basics, explaining some of the most fundamental parts of maths and physics to him, before getting more advanced till you get to Bluetooth, considering his knowledge on science was probably extremely limited.
@@chrisgarrett6305 "see this magic tablet in my hand ? See this light helmet on my head ? If I press a button on one and touch a rune on the other, they are now connected by invisible light, and that light sends information from the tablet to the helmet, which retranscribes it in sound. To you it looks like magic, but it's just really advanced application of smithing and the mastery over electricity."
That's a fascinating thought. 🤔
@@oqo3310 Cloaking it in magic is the perfect explanation, you can make it simple & vague or actually detailed & scientific.
Henceforth, I shall refer to Bluetooth as Harald, or Harry if I'm feeling informal.
This was so danish weather. I wish i could have met you randomly.
Looks like British weather. I imagine there's not much in it.
Well - we usually get the weather after you've had it in Britain ..... so that's what's left......
So Danish weather is essentially weather with a slight British accent?
Estrid Aagesen apologies for that!
@@PiousMoltar Two years on, and I look out of my window, and the British weather looks much the same.
You gotta' let us Danish fans know when you visit our little insignificant country! Are you still in Denmark?
My videos lag behind my physical location by a couple of weeks! (Although at the end of the now-unlisted call for guest videos, I did mention I was going here...!)
I was so sad when I saw in your video for the guest videos, that you were only going to be here for less than 24 hours. On another note, I've been there! Closest I've been to Tom Scott.
Wait. That sounds creepy. Basically I've also visited that place and I live in Copenhagen.
Tom Scott
I saw your tweet about being in the air and space museum about 10 hours after you sent it out. Was disappointed to have missed you, it's my favorite museum in the area
Got a shot of my parents house in that video at least :)
They'd love this! :)
Tagger of
btw: The stones was painted with beautiful colours back in Harald's time. And Harald's runestone appears on the inside front cover of the Danish passport.
this is incREDIBLE
dodie likes tom scott - my ultimate youtube loves combine
I just listing to your album before watching this. Wild
I have like 3 of these in my home town and there are probably hundreds of them
As a Swedish archaeologist this makes me realy happy =D
one day you will be cancelled for not planting somalian artifacts on your digs
@@Khunark Somalis aren't Hoteps loonies. They stick to their own history, not made up nonsense like what's common among Western Afrocentrists.
This was something I knew about before watching the video, but Tom Scott still does a great job at making it interesting. Where if I might explain it to someone, I'd be all over the place and would just confuse the person. He just does a great job at being concise and informative
I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE OF THOSE STUPID PUNS !!!
Sorry for Jelling
What a bad yoke.
didn't crack me up one bit
that was pretty cheesy.
that wasn't a very gouda pun, which instantly makes this one feta
All I can think of is Civilization V.
And how annoying Harald was.
I listened to this on my Bluetooth speaker just because I can.
I've literally just binge watched every last video on this channel.
Jake Cooke Welcome to our little group of nerds
Yes, welcome. Would you like some mystery biscuits?
Oh Yeah!
Have you seen captain obvious?
Hey there
Wait, Bluetooth was developed by Ericsson, not Intel.
But Jim Kardach, who came up with the name, worked at Intel! The whole idea was that many companies would decide on one protocol.
After whom was AirDrop named?
Montague AirDrop of course!
Wait, _the_ Leif Ericsson??
+Noel Goetowski No, Lars Magnus Ericsson from Sweden. No relation to Leif Erikson of (Probably, it's not really known) Iceland.
Tom Scott: "I'm in the village of Yelling, in Denmark"
Also Tom Scott: *speaks quietly*
Jelling. Like Middlefart, it doesn't mean what you think it means and is, in fact, not even spelled like the English word for speaking very loudly. Both Middlefart and Jelling doesn't actually mean anything in Danish. None of our city names does. Just like everywhere else. However, if you were to translate Copenhagen directly from Danish to English, it wouldn't be _"Copenhagen"_ but instead it would be _"Buy A Seaport"_
Side note. I'd love to see a native English speaker try to pronounce this Danish city name: Avedøre
@@Arterexius Middelfart*
You're asking for it by trying to spell it in english.
..and you're wrong, most city's have mening in Denmark.
Middelfart is old Danish, rufly translated, it means "halfway" between Jylland/Jutland and the capitol.
@@TheMessyDane roughly* Capital*
@@fallen6060 Yes.
@@Arterexius Come on, all our city names mean plenty! But it takes too long to explain...
That's something I did know
That's something I had forgotten.
Wawawa-wasuremono
welcome to denmark. do you like the weather ;)
Thats the weather in Denmark 90% of the year more or less
I once remarked that Danish rain sounds delicious. It took a few people a while to realise i was on about the pastries.
I love a brisk and windy rainy day here in Denmark, when dressed properly for it. Makes you feel quite alive.
Husk på hvor Tom kommer fra 😉 mon ikke han er rimelig vand til lorte vejr?
He's British, he's likely accustomed to it.
Other cool Viking names are Bjorn Ironside, Ragnar Lothbrok, Sigurd Snake-in-eye and Ivar the Boneless.
Feel free to use them for your next tech project.
So, who else can't see the two emojis at the beginning of the video title?
(edit: unicode runes, not emoji)
E2: *YES I KNOW IT WORKS ON YOUR COMPUTER* It's an Android issue when using the YT app.
There are no emojis, just runes.
They aren't emoji. They are the two runes (H and B) shown towards the end of the video that make up the bluetooth symbol.
Ah, well, since emoji is part of unicode I'm not that far off.
Chrome on Mac, can't see them. Checking on my Android... huh, also a no-go!
Chrome on Mac too, I can see them
Intel what now ? Bluetooth was invented by Jaap Haartsen a Dutch guy working for Ericsson. The patent is in his name.
How did he get the name "Bluetooth"?
Kishore Shenoy When a tooth rots/dies inside the mouth it turns blue
Kishore Shenoy Presumably from a blue tooth.
Emil Havn
I would have thought it would turn black
Thanks for the info.
he probably had dead teeth
In older Norse languages there was no name for black, I guess it was just deemed to be a very dark blue.
They boxed the stones because they were jelling...
No. As a Danish person I command you to stop. The dreadful Danish weather had forced it to be protected.
also because someone spray painted graffiti on them
Well, I´m Danish too and I think it's a good joke. :-)
loveesc finally someone who can handle a bit of humour
@@DIYIMPULSE A few years ago some tourists sprayed graffiti on the Charles Bridge in Prague. And they were from a neighboring country, so they probably kinda knew what it is and what historical value it has. Really don't understand the thinking of some people...
Wrong. Jaap Haartsen from the Netherlands working for Ericsson 'discovered' Bleutooth. Who cares about the namegiver? It's the technique that counts.
who cares ? Danes care as Bluetooth is one of the most important Kings in our history don't be disrespectful
Love this (obviously.) And this is one of the few videos of yours where I can say "I knew ALL of that". Though to be fair, I would be a pretty useless Dane if I didn't.
Wow, ᛡ rune only had a H sound in its latest state, it had a Y sound (J in nordic languages) for most of its history, so the name Harald could really possibly be Yerald/Jerald before, which is a common romance name as Geraldo an even present in The Witcher as the englishesed Gerald.
These videos are so brilliantly sustainable. The stories are always wonderfully worth sharing and I can only imagine that the low overhead expense of your time, money and effort must make these videos an absolute joy to put together! Hats off to you, Tom! You've not only created media that's soooo so worth existing but you've proven to myself and assuredly many other creators that organization and consistency can compete against high budget, high effort content (at least on this platform.)
Aside from the equipment used in production, someone to run it and their travel expenses, it seems the only thing this video required was a knowledgeable, organized speaker and an interesting, relevant backdrop. No gaffers, no stagehands, no special effects artists -- just a person, place and idea worth sharing. No licensing or contract agreements, just someone who cared sharing something worth caring about.
In an era where my senses feel flooded by media, it is so. damn. refreshing to maintain a little faith towards the viability of sustainable media. Thank you for making these, I hope you and the people in your life are staying happy and healthy at the time of reading this!
Scandinavia is the most interesting place in Europe! Please make more videos about them!
People are jelling at 1:07 - 1:11
Who else just saw the bluetooth logo on their phones. Suddenly it has an entire new meaning. What a legend.
Its an honor to have you in Denmark, Tom. Keep on posting great and informative videos.
You could have a potential killer moment in your video by showing the H and B runes on the stones themselves. ("That bluetooth logo on your phone? See, it was already here, a thousand years ago!"). Are they not present, or why didn't you do it?
Probably because it doesn't say Blåtand/Bluetooth on the stone
I think it actually was visible in the text though because that is where it says stuff.
"I'm in the small village of Jelling..."
what
"Jelling!"
WHAT
"Jell-"
WHAT?!
I hope you made some sort of Bluetooth transfer while there.
Sid B It should be a tradition
Someone should stick a Bluetooth transmitter in the box with the stones. Hey, it could be something you connect to and leave a message or something like that, to take it beyond just being a joke.
CowLunch that would be cool
it sent to each nearby devices a audio file, if you play it then you hear jelling
Two Australians invented WIFI when working for the CSIRO .. it’s named after Wayne Irwin & Frank Ingle
who thought it up while half pissed down the local Pub & still got docked for their extra hour for lunch.
It's amazing how most of your videos are made in like 1 shot, even when it starts raining you just put your hood on and keep on talking :)
Nah m8 that's just a misconception. Harald Bluetooth invented bluetooth
Wow that's something I didn't know. Thanks Tom!
Last Sunday on the Brazilian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" this was the Million "Brazilian Reais" Question.
I literally imagined myself on the spot, getting the answer right and thanking Tom on live TV for this piece of trivia!
Too bad I wasn't the contender...
Did you visit TrollTrace while in Denmark?
Wouldn’t it be ironic if somebody put bluetooth speakers in the stones to make them (jell)
I don't usually know the things talked about in these videos, but I knew this one.
It is so awesome to have Tom talking about Danish history :D
That's so cool! Reminds me of how our modern standard rail gages are based on with width of standard Roman chariots due to millennia of using their roads-and consequently, so were the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters, which needed to be transported by rail!
i think that the fellow engineer did not work for intel, but for ericsson...
I knew it was named after a Danish king of old, but I didn't know the whole story.
Also a blue tooth happens when blood is no longer circulating through a tooth but is still in body, like how Bluetooth has no wires.
I like the fact bluetooth wasn't named after a celebrity but somebody whose achievement has stood for centuries.
Kings are celebrities. It's hardly worth being a king if you ain't famous.
@@soaringvultureI know but Bluetooth sounded less generic like WiFi
Oh, how I wish Bluetooth were one protocol, but it's the posterchild for design by committee, so it's a few dozen protocols, most of which are pointless wrappers of other protocols. It's not even a true stack of protocols; it's a messy tree, with multiple protocols to do the same things. -_-
This is like something out of a crazy sci-fi, where something from the past goes on to have a weird effect on the future. I always thought the Bluetooth logo looked like some type of rune, but I assumed it was just a coincidence
Pan = god of Nature of Pagans (Celto-viking tradition). Harold = the king who finished the last Pagans. Nothing hazard : the Bluetooth is here to convert us to wireless to better finish us. Don’t sleep.
Typical Denmark 0:59
Bluetooth was developed by Ericsson in 1994 by a Dutch engineer; Jaap Haartsen (who didn't get a penny for it), working for Ericsson in Emmen (city in the north of the Netherlands)
Who else is here from Answer in Progress?
Me!
Gorm the Old is my 32nd Great Grandfather, and I have the documents to prove it.
I seriously enjoy your videos, all of them. 👍
A Dutch person named Jaap Haartsen actually developed Bluetooth, while working for LM Ericsson Telephone in the 90s.
I like P.A.N. _( Personal Area Network )_ better. Despite the historical significance, *The Bluetooth Communicator* sounds like something a child would name the technology.
_( to me )_
No way! A Tom Scott video from my country on my birthday!
Jacob Sørensen Ha den äran på födelsedagen från grannarna i norr!
Nordic people that were taught about Harald in school: widepeepoHappy
I was always taught that Bluetooth was invented at Ericsson in Lund, Sweden (where i live) but now I have learnt it was developed together with Intel and Nokia (all with blue logos BTW). Thank you for humbling us cocky Swedes :-)
Nice makeshift Unicode Bluetooth, (edit) or not. I should finish the vid.
It was not at Intel: The Bluetooth standard was originally conceived by Dr. Jaap Haartsen at Ericsson back in 1994.
His name is Harald Blåtand in Danish :-)
any particular reason why there's tape on Tom's jacket to cover up the Rab logo? (the logo is shown on the arms)... what's the reasoning behind this?
So why was he called "Bluetooth"? Did he have a blue tooth?
yes, well black, we Danes didn't have a separate for black back then. they are stories about seeing blue people on the travels.
+steamcastle I think you accidentally a word there.
Bluetooth is invented by a Dutch inverter at Ericson. His name is Jaap Haartsen. Not Jim from Intel
1:22 "The sort of thing that might *unite* computers..."
Oh, I see what you did there!
I was told it was Jaap Haartsen, a Dutch guy who worked for Ericsson in Sweden, who invented Bluetooth. What is it?
"I'm in the small town of yelling-"
"What?"
"Yelling"
"WHAT?"
*yelling* "YELLING"
"Yes. Yes you are."
No, just no..its our national birthplace, how Denmark came to be..the whole place is surrounded by a big viking ship..scientists have revealed this..
I'm sure I've seen this before, but my 👍 has gone. 🤔
I'll just have to give it a 👍 again. 😄
Imagine if Bluetooth wasn't used
"Yo turn on the Pan I'm sending somethin"
Did you intentionally leave out the decade of work at Ericsson and IBM with Bluetooth technology leading up to them inviting Nokia, Intel and others in the late 90s?
I wonder what would king Bluetooth think if he knew that the Bluetooth technology is named after him.
Welp... Seems like Harald had some kind of disability btw, since my phone always says that "Bluetooth is disabled"
I think a better title for this video is "How the vikings raided our tech"
Whenever my computer starts acting up I hit it with a battleaxe.
Works surprisingly well.
Come on, we all know the ancient Greeks invented Bluetooth. It just took 2000 years to find a use for it.
if you press 3 and then 9, the video suddenly talks about the fact that jesus himself was in the village of Jelling.
Pantented by swedish company ericsson
Of cause it's raining, it's Denmark.
Trying to find a video about the Stones to present to my class in Denmark but no Danish person makes a video about it. Thanks anyways
Actually the creator of Bluetooth is the dutchman Jaap Haartsen, who worked at ericsson
Searching for an interesting video on the history of Harald Bluetooth I stumbled on this video. Our schools, here in the US, don't teach much about European history unless your a History major in college. It's defiantly the best video about the subject on UA-cam. I wonder what caused his tooth to turn blue. Perhaps his tooth was injured in a battle in which someone smashed him in the face killing his tooth. I suppose we will never truly know. Interesting tidbit of history, thanks for the video! :-)
I always thought the Bluetooth logo was just a stylized letter B...
It is. It's an H on top of a B.
Anyone else see the Bluetooth logo as a bent staple that hasn't gone through paper? Get a stapler, mash it down without paper, then look at the staple from the side. Bluetooth logo in metal wire.
That's awesome! I'm actually listening to this on my Bluetooth headset!
But of course you'd know this if you have watched Kingsman
Not a single word about the dutch inventor of Bluetooth Jaap Haartsen?
You did it Harald, you we're part of distant future.
You may rest in peace now.
Do you have anything about the Kalmar-Union? I’m Danish.
I just switched my lothbrok off because it was giving errors
Church of progress infested the land and took all meaning from the people
all the danes watching (including me): finally some recognition