They were being thrown away/deleted so some researches from the university decided to save them. I much prefer this to losing this information/history fully.
Edit: Fair enough but I Still maintain my option on the site's poor design.
https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/about.html
> The Nokia Design Archive is a graphic and interactive portal designed by researchers from Aalto University in Finland. It currently hosts over 700 entries, curated from thousands of items donated by Microsoft Mobile Oy and representing over 20 years of Nokia’s design history — both seen and unseen. You can freely explore the archive, learn about designers’ experiences working in Nokia and discover interesting topics surrounding design and mobile technologies.
You can look at the uncurated collection at aalto university repo https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8... (not sure if all of the materials digitized/online though)
Did anyone say they were? In this particular thread?
> These are actual internal archives donated from Nokia
Yes yes, that seems quite plausible. But why are you arguing that in response to a complaint about the site's sucky usability? It has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
How do you go from e.g. Vision 99 (if you manage to find it in Wayback machine) to all related entires? https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/?node=C0027
This is all 1960s era concepts.
Literally any wiki style site will be a perfect fit to serve this content.
Yup, linking millions of documents that you are required to sift through to combine the information you need
> Literally any wiki style site will be a perfect fit to serve this content.
And does wayback machine have this "any wiki"?
Meanwhile the site in question is literally the wiki with hyperlinks you're talking about
You just click on the blue underlined text; it's called a "hyperlink". Revolutionary new concept, I know.
It's not as if that confusing flash-like Captain Web Designer interface works without you clicking on stuff, now is it?