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Nokia was originally a rubber company, meaning at one point you could find the same logo on cellphones, car tires and rubber boots. (If you're wondering how yo
by decimalenough 2y ago
Nokia was originally a rubber company, meaning at one point you could find the same logo on cellphones, car tires and rubber boots.
(If you're wondering how you get from rubber to phones, they had rubber-coated cables and wired telephone switches along the way.)
- fmajid 2y agoLevel 3, the biggest Internet backbone transit provide, was spun off from the Peter Kiewit construction firm, and had as its original asset a coal mine in Wyoming.
- mjg59 2y agoThe US Telco Sprint was spun off from the Southern Pacific railroad - train lines are convenient places to lay fibre trunks
- hakfoo 2y agoIt would have been interesting to see what happened if it hadn't spun off, suddenly you'd have a huge Fortune 500 telecom where its side business was running a railroad. Would that have kept them afloat as an operation? I've spent the last few decades here watching as their red-and-grey engines disappeared in a sea of yellow.
- fmajid 2y agoSPRINT == Southern Pacific Railroad Internal NeTwork.
- Suppafly 2y agoDidn't the telco part come from a merger with one of the baby bells that emerged when bell was broke up?
- keane 2y agoNo, they were an independent telco before the 1984 breakup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bell_Operating_Company#Mergers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bell_Operating_Compan...
- bsimpson 2y agoNintendo was playing cards.
- Hamuko 2y agoThey also briefly experiemented with taxis, rice and love hotels before they focused on toys and games.