When did the Armbian operating system for arm based single board computers start?

In the Armbian Wiki it says the first release of Armbian started on 2022-11-30:

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

But here we found information that Armbian was available as early is 2017:

  • Armbian on the PhidgetSBC4 December 15, 2017, by Lucas

What is Armbian?

Armbian is a lightweight Debian Jessie or Ubuntu Xenial based Linux distribution specialized for ARM-based single board computers, like the PhidgetSBC4:

https://www.phidgets.com/?view=articles&article=Armbian

PhidgetSBC4:

https://www.phidgets.com/?prodid=969