“Older readers may remember the letter, a slow communications format that people used to exchange small talk about the weather and their health on pieces of paper, before telephones,” notes Gizmodo UK’s Gary Cutlack, wryly.

“From that paper-making start, the Finnish company would turn into a more industrialised giant, moving to rubber processing in the late 1800s, cable production in the early 1900s and eventually realising that it had everything to hand that one might need to enter the communications world.”

Nokia moved into electronics in the swinging sixties and then into the telephone business in the 1970s, and you can see the company’s more recent product timeline on the rather awesome poster above.