Nokia started out making paper, not phones.

Nokia’s origins go back to 1865, when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam founded a wood pulp mill on the banks of the Nokianvirta river in southwestern Finland — the source of the company’s name.

Over the following century, Nokia expanded into rubber goods and cables before diversifying into electronics in the 1960s. It wasn’t until the 1990s that the company divested its original paper, rubber, and cable businesses entirely to focus on the mobile phones it became known for worldwide.