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by ZeroGravitas 4032 days ago
Nokia used to make a big deal about their background in paper mills, rubber boots etc.

http://company.nokia.com/en/about-us/our-company/our-story

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Nokia had a natural progression though. Rubber, rubber-coated cables and wires, analog telephone switches full of wiring, digital telephone switches full of software, mobile phones that talk to those switches! And this took about a hundred years.