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  2. Bluetooth - Wikipedia

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    The name "Bluetooth" was proposed in 1997 by Jim Kardach of Intel, one of the founders of the Bluetooth SIG.The name was inspired by a conversation with Sven Mattisson who related Scandinavian history through tales from Frans G. Bengtsson's The Long Ships, a historical novel about Vikings and the 10th-century Danish king Harald Bluetooth.

  3. Harald Bluetooth - Wikipedia

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    The Bluetooth wireless specification design was named after the king in 1997, [30] based on an analogy that the technology would unite devices the way Harald Bluetooth united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom. [31] [32] [33] The Bluetooth logo consists of a Younger Futhark bind rune for his initials, H and B . [34]

  4. Fact check: Bluetooth is actually named after the Viking king ...

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    It's true that Bluetooth is named after Harald "Blatand" Gormsson, a Viking king who ruled Denmark and Norway. Fact check: Bluetooth is actually named after the Viking king who united Denmark ...

  5. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    The biggest Terekeme of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).

  6. Bluetooth Special Interest Group - Wikipedia

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    The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) is the standards organization that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards and the licensing of the Bluetooth technologies and trademarks to manufacturers. The SIG is a not-for-profit, non-stock corporation founded in September 1998.

  7. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.

  8. Outline of the history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...

  9. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [ a ] The dates in this article make frequent use of the units mya and kya , which refer to millions and thousands of years ago, respectively.