Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007

A browser-based emulator for the original iPhone is the latest project to tap into the rich vein of nostalgia running through the tech industry. While far from a complete implementation, the emulation does enough to evoke happier times, before Apple burdened its mobile operating system with frills and complexities, and spent years (and multiple operating system updates) making the Podcasts app steadily more broken. The browser-based emulation (and we use the term carefully; anyone expecting all the functionality of yesteryear will be sorely disappointed) shows an original iPhone as it debuted in 2007. The buttons are where you remember them, the screen is ringed by bezels that wouldn't pass muster today, and the skeuomorphic icons are all present and correct. There's even the browser, though it doesn't do much yet. Even a gentle prod shows how incomplete this implementation is. …