https://www.reddit.com/r/knolling/comments/e3e86r/at_rokin_m...
Also, after making a career switch from archaeology to software engineering, even weirder to see my former occupation and project dig site re-emerge here on HN
IIRC it was my first mobile.
Never used Nokia though it had major market share those days.
I notice most of the phones seem to be missing SIM cards = intentional disposal ? Or have they just come apart over time?
My early phones were all Ericsson later Alcatel which had a nice AA battery powered one! That was in 2000-01. First camera phone I think was a Siemens.
What a decline for European brands!
That is to say, keeping anything historical has its limits. If we always keep everything historical, we will keep literally everything, and the planet will be quite full pretty quickly, with no place to build anything.
We should be careful to preserve truly historically relevant things. But most historical things are just old trash...
Doing rescue archaeology is a common way for archaeologists to make a living in-between more interesting projects.
