I found this sweet baby on eBay… I dropped an ATMEGA328 in it and robbed a lowly UNO for it’s plastic bottom protector.
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From a geological layer not Cambrian but pretty far down in my goodie box for reference.
Definitely genuine. Purchased sometime in 2009.
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It’s a better board than Uno. Use it. If you like, you can burn the Uno bootloader on the ATmega328P and have slightly faster uploads. I believe the 4 pads below the FTDI chip can be used to turn the FTDI into a bit-banging ISP programmer.
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And also 1.5 kB more precious flash memory for your sketch programs (the Uno's Optiboot bootloader fits in a 0.5 kB boot section, while the traditional "ATmegaBOOT" bootloader requires a 2 kB boot section)!
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I am pretty sure that is an old school date code made the week of Christmas in 2008.
That one is old enough to move out and get it’s own place. 
I believe you are right!
I have an even older NG embedded in a restaurant's meat dry aging room that I can't photograph. Sparkfun was a US distributor back then and they also made their own labeled Pro version with no FTDI chip.
It appears to have a real crystal for the ATmega328P chip instead of a resonator.
It's in beautiful condition. Nice find!
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Ugh. Don't remind me. I noticed that it's quite possible that some of the people needing help on the forum weren't even born when I started playing with Arduino...
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Mine has the blue board like @EmilyJane . Even the same date code.
One thing to be aware of is that the onboard LED on pin 13 is not buffered. This can be a problem for some I/O cases.
I was doing some more research on Duemilanove. And, I found a document referring to the Duemilanove as "A000001". I never realized it was part number #1.
