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A comment on Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?.

Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by tpeo on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:00AM (#14603844)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

I want to believe.

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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by ativzzz on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:00AM (#14604341)
Funny how I encountered one of the problems this tries to solve. My smartphone died so I booted up my trusty Samsung Galaxy S (yea that's S without a number on it) and went about trying to flash a newer version of android to it, only to find about 90% of download links to the necessary programs to be dead. This is only 6-7 years ago. Imagine how much of the internet becomes useless so quickly.
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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by donclark on Saturday June 24, 2017 @10:47AM (#14625762)
The phone I currently use, is a Samsung Galaxy S III - which is 7 years old runs better than it ever has. It runs Android 7 via LineageOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_III

https://lineageos.org/

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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by Tritrin on Saturday June 24, 2017 @06:55PM (#14627822)
It can't be 7 years old, it was released 2012.
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Re:Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time? by therealmarv on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:18AM (#14603980)
yes me too. Maybe too far ahead for most people. But the concept is unbelievable good.
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