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From Ars Technica:
One of my most-visited Wikipedia articles is the "Android version history" page. It's great for a timeline of Android releases and bullet-point lists of features, but for me it's only really good as a reminder. If you haven't tried the early Android builds first-hand, it doesn't really give a good impression of what they were like. There are almost no pictures, no descriptions of how things work. The rest of the Web offers, at most, one- or two-paragraph overviews of each version and a single picture. That's about it. And for some reason, everyone ignores the early versions that came before Android 1.0.
So I set out to do it myself-to create a detailed account of every version of Android. I've always loved retrospectives of old technology, and while six or so years might seem like a little early to do a look back, Android both adds and shuts down features faster than anything else in the tech world. Even if you started over today, you wouldn't be able to run half of the 1.0 apps that I did just a few months ago. They simply don't work anymore.
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