Bluetooth is named after King Harald Bluetooth who united Denmark and Norway. He had a dead tooth that was blue which is how he got his nickname. The bluetooth logo is made up of Harald's initials in Old Norse runic symbols https://i.imgur.com/iqpnQjR.png

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Love this. Always a fan of Nordic culture

omg! couldn’t tell if it was real - had to google. thank you for this graphic! https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/

And it is a Swedish innovation engineered by Ericsson in the 90s. Very interesting how Sweden was one of the biggest countries exporting new network communication back then