nafod40 wrote:

William W. Plummer wrote:

Bluetooth: a solution in search of a problem


So was the internet for a while.

Not at all. TCP, the original name for "TCP/IP" that we know today,
was designed to meet certain military needs but the bigger issue of how
to communicate through widely-disparate networks was _THE_ problem.
You can look up the IEEE Trans. on Communications paper by Kahn and
Cerf. 1974 as I recall.