Ever heard of Wi-Fi? HD? USB? There is lot of generic lazy names in universal technologies. It's just often abbreviated and sounds way better this way.
Additional fun fact on this. The original Bluetooth was a small USB plug-in device colored blue, looking like a blue snaggletooth sticking out of the side of a computer. A blue tooth. A further play on the name. I have one from back then. Still works.
Fun fact: Harald is the first verifiable king to rule over all of denmark (His Father Gorm ruled mostly over Jutland and had tenuous authority over the rest) But he isn't the first verifyiabls king of norway, Harald Fairhair has him beat on that front by almost a century. Also, unifying kingdoms apparently ran in the family, as Harald's Grandson became king of England, Norway and Denmark (the so called North Sea Empire) and one of his descendants through one of his granddaughters became the first tuler of the Kalmar Union by becoming Queen of Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
Fun fact: " What is bluetooth named after?" Was the last question of an episode of Brazilian Who wants to be a Millionaire. The alternatives were: a) A river B) A king C) A general D) A castle The player chose not to answer and left the game with half a million reais which equals to around a hundred thousand dollars
Actually its disputed why Bluetooth was called that. It may have been a dead tooth, but it also could have been that he literally had a blue tooth. The vikings of the era would sometimes carve grooves in their teeth and then fill the grooves with dye
@@saulgoodman5753 Thats what i found about the origin: Its first known appearance was during the Neolithic period (around 5,000 BC) in Mesopotamia. That makes yogurt well over 7,000 years old! It's believed that, like butter, yogurt was created by accident when milk was exposed to bacteria or soured in warm temperatures.
He was the 3rd king of Denmark and his family is still ruling Denmark over 1,000 years later making his family the longest running royal family in the world.
He is a really renowned figure here in Denmark and we have a stone from the viking age which describes in runes, how he converted Denmark to Christianity. Which he also did.
Meanwhile we now have wifi and such, my pc and phone connect over wifi now, bluetooth was great once upon a time but now we have so much better for our era.
Wi-Fi is older than Bluetooth and Bluetooth isn't made for large data transfer. Your phone computer connection will revert to Bluetooth if you leave a known WiFi network.
@@grandsome1 bluetooth was invented in 1994 and wifi in 1997 or about there, either way when i go out and about i dont use wifi, only when im at home and i only have bluetooth enabled if im actually using it
@@PlutoProtogen Really, I didn't know that. It seemed to me that Wi-Fi was more widely adopted and common in the market earlier than Bluetooth. Funny that BT was invented first.
@@grandsome1 im not an expert or anything on the subject, and i could be wrong idk, i like tech and stuff but wifi and bluetooth arent really my thing lol
Yes, Herald "Bluetooth" Gormson. Son of king Gorm, Herald went on to Christianize the vikings, until his son violently deposed him, and he was killed in the battle. His burial location is yet unknown, but he and his father are likely buried beneath an old church that is likely gone now. There is an Expedition Unknown episode dedicated to this, its really cool.
Now that i think about it, Harald uniting norway and denmark, two countries seperated by water, but not too far away, is a perfect reflection of the technology. A way to bring things together that are seperate, but not TOO far apart.
the guy who named it is basically a big brainer to ever had thought about naming it like that, or maybe a plot twist that he was just messing around with names but later after the name was approved then he looks the stuff that might making it makes sense.
Imagine being a celebrated leader, uniting kingdoms, and years later, your name is spoken an uncountable number of times each day in reference to what has become yet another mundane manifestation of magic.
🤓errhm, acktchually, Harald Bluetooth's tooth probably wasn't actually bluish gray, but rather black, like any rotting tooth. The reason why it was called blue was because there was little to no distinction between blue and black.
And that ended up being one of the best things to happen in electronics.
That's assuming Bluetooth even works, which for me at least, it never works properly.
It is the shittiest technology still in use today.
@@Samo762It wasn't when Bluetooth first became a thing. It was revolutionary at the time.
Now it's ok. But dear god Bluetooth was terrible for decades before it became usable. And it's still not as reliable as wifi.
The name ended up being one of the best things to happen in electronics?
Thank freaking god, can't imagine saying "Radio Wire"
Exactly, radio wire is such a horrible name that I can't believe it almost happened. Thankfully the Patton filing system was slow AF back then.
It would probably be shortened to R-Wire or just Wire by now, still just as bad and confusing because of “Wireless”.
Ever heard of Wi-Fi? HD? USB? There is lot of generic lazy names in universal technologies. It's just often abbreviated and sounds way better this way.
@@minxironwoodpatent* Lol
I was just thinking that lmao
Additional fun fact on this. The original Bluetooth was a small USB plug-in device colored blue, looking like a blue snaggletooth sticking out of the side of a computer. A blue tooth. A further play on the name. I have one from back then. Still works.
What brand manufactured them and what is the model name exactly?
That sounds like a Bluetooth dongle
@@buttonsf3293 Yup. Damn. That was 25 years ago.
I remember in high-school, my dad had one that stuck out of his ear and it was blue. That was when slide phones were a thing (not flip phones).
@@buttonsf3293 yes, the first one 😂
Bluetooth temporary name untill +100b years
Anyone who's ever worked in tech knows that there's no solution more permanent than a temporary one
Imagine being a viking king and 500 years later you have bluetooth named after you
More like over 1000 years later.
Yeah, that's... exactly what happened? What are you even trying to say here?
Bluetooth was invented in the 1500s?
@@miketaggard309 okay so?
@@wbaysdsbe5404so ur wrong
"Ayo just Radio Wire me that file"
"just P.A.N me that file" 😅
Idk anyone who says “bluetooth me that file”
@@Tomago9387 nah but I have heard "send it through Bluetooth"
@@ThatUnknownDude_ “send it through radio wire” sounds fine
Probably will get shortened as Ra-Wi like Wi-Fi.
IVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THE BLUETOOTH SYMBOL LOOKED LIKED VIKING RUNES.
they called me a madman
The fools! 😂
You might still be mad, just not about this. Grasp absurdity.
Same! I thought the B looked like a rune.
Fun fact:
Harald is the first verifiable king to rule over all of denmark (His Father Gorm ruled mostly over Jutland and had tenuous authority over the rest)
But he isn't the first verifyiabls king of norway, Harald Fairhair has him beat on that front by almost a century.
Also, unifying kingdoms apparently ran in the family, as Harald's Grandson became king of England, Norway and Denmark (the so called North Sea Empire) and one of his descendants through one of his granddaughters became the first tuler of the Kalmar Union by becoming Queen of Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
That is fascinating
Harald Fairhair from the Vikings TV series
Ah, Canute the Great. Not as great as Thorfinn tho. Thorfinn is a true warrior.
Imagine being some Viking king chilling in the afterlife, then mfs start using your nickname when connecting their airpods
THE RADIO WIRE DEVICE IS READY TO PAIR
Fun fact: " What is bluetooth named after?" Was the last question of an episode of Brazilian Who wants to be a Millionaire. The alternatives were:
a) A river
B) A king
C) A general
D) A castle
The player chose not to answer and left the game with half a million reais which equals to around a hundred thousand dollars
Actually its disputed why Bluetooth was called that. It may have been a dead tooth, but it also could have been that he literally had a blue tooth. The vikings of the era would sometimes carve grooves in their teeth and then fill the grooves with dye
That’s interesting…
insane name
Thank you Doug for informing me that the internet is actually Scandinavia.
Always has been 🧑🏻🚀🔫👨🏻🚀
The internet no. Bluetooth yes.
This is the first one of your facts I knew, and I have no idea why I know it
Tom Scott probably?
It's the second time he upload this video. Maybe you saw the first one
@@claytonharting9899or Kingsman
Kingsman 2?
@@KiweCar Yes, golden circle or whatever it was called
Really random, but can you do a vid on like where yoghurt originated from? Would be an interesting fun fact
Someone just let milk stay in a warm temperature for hours and discovered the end result was edible
@eetuthereindeer6671 which country did it originate from tho, ik how its made its just the origins I'm interested in
@@saulgoodman5753
Thats what i found about the origin:
Its first known appearance was during the Neolithic period (around 5,000 BC) in Mesopotamia. That makes yogurt well over 7,000 years old! It's believed that, like butter, yogurt was created by accident when milk was exposed to bacteria or soured in warm temperatures.
@@ZTheLastViking damn so it we could reasonably say it was the Greeks who invented it. (I'm gonna start a war if any Turkish person reads this)
Ah yes, Harald "Bluetooth", the brother of Bjorn "Wifi"
Your Bluetooth device has been connected
I was just wondering this the other day, thank you !!
Fire that marketing team ong
Jim should have got their pay checks for the week since he was doing their jobs for them.
Man, the adrenaline of knowledge! Best video so far!
Fire that marketing team
Intel is honestly the goated tech company
The marketing team had one job.
And someone else did it for them.
I seriously think the name, logo and technology itself are absolutely genius
This video is actually a collection of fun facts. Great job!
Great job reading from Google. It's not difficult to research info, turn on a camera, and read what's found.
When my dad worked for Ericsson, he helped develop Bluetooth
Nothing is more permanent than temporary things
Why is no one talking about how Doug looks like a vampire here
How fucking overpaid are the marketing team that the only 2 options were PAN and Raido Wire?
Even though I've watched a 16 minute video about it in detail yet this short gave a cuspy gist of it
Very cool information. Ty
He was the 3rd king of Denmark and his family is still ruling Denmark over 1,000 years later making his family the longest running royal family in the world.
There is nothing more eternal than temporary
It is incredibly weird that this shows up on my feed as I was randomly thinking about this subject this morning.
My grandpa worked on Bluetooth
This actually a pretty cool fact
Marketing sure comes up with terrible names.
That marketing team were scammers
“Aye, let me connect to the radio wire”
Yea no thanks 💀
Jeez, marketing really did that homework five minutes before class. Horrible names. At least Bluetooth is distinctive.
"hold on let me connect my radio wire real quick" nah bluetooth was the W play here
i literally can’t come up with a better name for Bluetooth than Bluetooth
Now I know why the Bluetooth logo looks like that.
Thank God they chose Bluetooth as the name.
He is a really renowned figure here in Denmark and we have a stone from the viking age which describes in runes, how he converted Denmark to Christianity. Which he also did.
"Radio wire" is literally the opposite to what it tried to represent.
Meanwhile we now have wifi and such, my pc and phone connect over wifi now, bluetooth was great once upon a time but now we have so much better for our era.
Wi-Fi is older than Bluetooth and Bluetooth isn't made for large data transfer. Your phone computer connection will revert to Bluetooth if you leave a known WiFi network.
@@grandsome1 bluetooth was invented in 1994 and wifi in 1997 or about there, either way when i go out and about i dont use wifi, only when im at home and i only have bluetooth enabled if im actually using it
@@PlutoProtogen Really, I didn't know that. It seemed to me that Wi-Fi was more widely adopted and common in the market earlier than Bluetooth. Funny that BT was invented first.
@@grandsome1 im not an expert or anything on the subject, and i could be wrong idk, i like tech and stuff but wifi and bluetooth arent really my thing lol
Yes, Herald "Bluetooth" Gormson. Son of king Gorm, Herald went on to Christianize the vikings, until his son violently deposed him, and he was killed in the battle. His burial location is yet unknown, but he and his father are likely buried beneath an old church that is likely gone now. There is an Expedition Unknown episode dedicated to this, its really cool.
Now that i think about it, Harald uniting norway and denmark, two countries seperated by water, but not too far away, is a perfect reflection of the technology. A way to bring things together that are seperate, but not TOO far apart.
Yo is it just me or does Doug look mad pale and sickly in this video? 🧛🏻♂️
the guy who named it is basically a big brainer to ever had thought about naming it like that, or maybe a plot twist that he was just messing around with names but later after the name was approved then he looks the stuff that might making it makes sense.
Both PAN and Radio Wire are terrible names, who tf was in charge of the marketing department
Maybe they should put Jim in charge of naming things.
Ive been wondering this for years
And that's another way to have your legacy remembered 😊
Nothing is as permanent as temporary measures.
That indeed is a fun fact 😂
That marketing team was useless😂
The most permanent thing is a temporary solution
Only few people know that this a re-upload
Imagine being a celebrated leader, uniting kingdoms, and years later, your name is spoken an uncountable number of times each day in reference to what has become yet another mundane manifestation of magic.
Ouch, cant imagine 5 syllables in comparison to the 2 for bluetooth. Thank god we got bluetooth
I was just wondering about this yesterday.
Don’t forget Hedy Lamarr’s contribution to the technology.
My mans pale af. Thought i got jumpscared by a ghost
It's winter lol
Yeah true although, your next short and previous one look totally normal. Here you look whiter than usual.
lighting is hard
“Your wire frame dewice is ready to pell”
Historical reference awesome
Always thought the logo was literally blue fangs and not the initials of someone.
Only error is that Ericsson was already developing it in the early 90's, Intel only came in later.
I'm gonna turn on radio wire so I can listen to this with my headphones 💀
“The Bluetooth device is ready to pair”
“The Radio Wire device is ready to be connected”🤣🤣
I was blown away by how it works
Proof that even in communication tech students are better than communication students
Their marketing team should be fired, my God.
🤓errhm, acktchually, Harald Bluetooth's tooth probably wasn't actually bluish gray, but rather black, like any rotting tooth. The reason why it was called blue was because there was little to no distinction between blue and black.
Also, PAN is the proper term used for short range devices like bluetooth when IT people do their certification exams
I like the name being a history reference. Fire marketing department
that is the funniest thing i've ever heard
I always thought the Bluetooth logo was a vampire with the large triangle being the nose and the two smaller ones being the teeth
Thanks god they didnt change the name
Holy hell, that was actually a fun fact
I thought he loved blue berries so much that his tooth went blue
Conclusion: you used the wrong team as marketing. 😂
I’m surprised I’m not seeing any Vinland saga references
Fun fact about the tooth thing: they can heal enough for a grey tooth to turn white again! My brother had one as a kid.
GORMMSON 😂😂 "i am the son of gormm"
After this a bunch of viking tv show watching people are gonna start using the name bluetooth like crazy.
Who ever work in the marketing department should get fired...
Didn't know I can tune in a bluetooth lore now😅
I'm listening to this with Bluetooth
"Your Radio Wire device is ready to pair"
This is my favorite fact!!!!!
The Bluetooth is the GOAT in Data Transfer and conectivity ❤❤
Good call, as it allowed for very easy iconography to be made, cementing it into the public consciousness
Huh, how smart.
I hope in a few hundred years time the key points are lost and people are taught a Viking king invented Bluetooth mid piece negotiations.
For anyone wondering why it was called BLUEtooth apparently Harald liked eating blueberries which explains his bluish/grey tooth
Finally, I actually knew this one, don't know why though 😂