diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
  * Allow passing enums to a select.
  * Remove the cacheBlocker parameter from HttpRequestDataReader
  * Optimize padding numbers when printing
+ * Remove the out of date example directory
 
 ## 0.14.0
  * MAJOR BREAKING CHANGE! Remove message extraction and code generation into a
diff --git a/example/basic/basic_example.dart b/example/basic/basic_example.dart
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index b0f5c07..0000000
--- a/example/basic/basic_example.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
-// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
-// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-/// This provides a basic example of internationalization usage. It uses the
-/// local variant of all the facilities, meaning that libraries with the
-/// data for all the locales are directly imported by the program. Once lazy
-/// loading is available, we expect this to be the preferred mode, with
-/// the initialization code actually loading the specific libraries needed.
-///
-/// This defines messages for an English locale directly in the program and
-/// has separate libraries that define German and Thai messages that say more or
-/// less the same thing, and prints the message with the date and time in it
-/// formatted appropriately for the locale.
-
-library intl_basic_example;
-
-import 'dart:async';
-import 'package:intl/date_symbol_data_local.dart';
-import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
-import 'messages_all.dart';
-
-/// In order to use this both as an example and as a test case, we pass in
-/// the function for what we're going to do with the output. For a simple
-/// example we just pass in [print] and for tests we pass in a function that
-/// adds it a list to be verified.
-Function doThisWithTheOutput;
-typedef ThenList(List l);
-
-void setup(ThenList program, Function output) {
-  // Before we use any messages or use date formatting for a locale we must
-  // call their initialization messages, which are asynchronous, since they
-  // might be reading information from files or over the web. Since we are
-  // running here in local mode they will all complete immediately.
-  doThisWithTheOutput = output;
-  var germanDatesFuture = initializeDateFormatting('de_DE', null);
-  var thaiDatesFuture = initializeDateFormatting('th_TH', null);
-  var germanMessagesFuture = initializeMessages('de_DE');
-  var thaiMessagesFuture = initializeMessages('th_TH');
-  Future.wait/*<Future>*/(<Future>[
-    germanDatesFuture,
-    thaiDatesFuture,
-    germanMessagesFuture,
-    thaiMessagesFuture
-  ]).then(program);
-}
-
-// Because the initialization messages return futures we split out the main
-// part of our program into a separate function that runs once all the
-// futures have completed. We are passed the collection of futures, but we
-// don't need to use them, so ignore the parameter.
-runProgram(List _) {
-  var aDate = new DateTime.fromMillisecondsSinceEpoch(0, isUtc: true);
-  var de = new Intl('de_DE');
-  var th = new Intl('th_TH');
-  // This defines a message that can be internationalized. It is written as a
-  // function that returns the result of an Intl.message call. The primary
-  // parameter is a string that may use interpolation.
-  runAt(time, date) =>
-      Intl.message('Ran at $time on $date', name: 'runAt', args: [time, date]);
-  printForLocale(aDate, new Intl(), runAt);
-  printForLocale(aDate, de, runAt);
-  printForLocale(aDate, th, runAt);
-  // Example making use of the return value from withLocale;
-  var returnValue = Intl.withLocale(th.locale, () => runAt('now', 'today'));
-  doThisWithTheOutput(returnValue);
-}
-
-printForLocale(aDate, intl, operation) {
-  var hmsFormat = intl.date().add_Hms();
-  var dayFormat = intl.date().add_yMMMMEEEEd();
-  var time = hmsFormat.format(aDate);
-  var day = dayFormat.format(aDate);
-  Intl.withLocale(intl.locale, () => doThisWithTheOutput(operation(time, day)));
-}
diff --git a/example/basic/basic_example_runner.dart b/example/basic/basic_example_runner.dart
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index 2c67c7b..0000000
--- a/example/basic/basic_example_runner.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
-// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
-// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-/// This is just a shell that runs the code in basic_example.dart, leaving
-/// that as a library that can also be run by tests.
-
-import 'basic_example.dart';
-
-main() {
-  setup(runProgram, print);
-}
diff --git a/example/basic/messages_all.dart b/example/basic/messages_all.dart
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--- a/example/basic/messages_all.dart
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@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
-// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
-// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-/// This imports all of the different message libraries and provides an
-/// [initializeMessages] function that sets up the lookup for a particular
-/// library.
-library messages_all;
-
-import 'dart:async';
-import 'package:intl/message_lookup_by_library.dart';
-import 'package:intl/src/intl_helpers.dart';
-import 'messages_th_th.dart' as th_TH;
-import 'messages_de.dart' as de;
-import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
-
-// TODO(alanknight): Use lazy loading of the requested library.
-MessageLookupByLibrary _findExact(localeName) {
-  switch (localeName) {
-    case 'th_TH':
-      return th_TH.messages;
-    case 'de':
-      return de.messages;
-    default:
-      return null;
-  }
-}
-
-initializeMessages(localeName) {
-  initializeInternalMessageLookup(() => new CompositeMessageLookup());
-  messageLookup.addLocale(localeName, _findGeneratedMessagesFor);
-  return new Future.value();
-}
-
-MessageLookupByLibrary _findGeneratedMessagesFor(locale) {
-  var actualLocale = Intl.verifiedLocale(locale, (x) => _findExact(x) != null,
-      onFailure: (_) => null);
-  if (actualLocale == null) return null;
-  return _findExact(actualLocale);
-}
diff --git a/example/basic/messages_de.dart b/example/basic/messages_de.dart
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index ce80108..0000000
--- a/example/basic/messages_de.dart
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@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
-// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
-// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-/// This is a library that provides messages for a German locale. All the
-/// messages from the main program should be duplicated here with the same
-/// function name.
-library messages_de;
-
-import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
-import 'package:intl/message_lookup_by_library.dart';
-
-final messages = new MessageLookup();
-
-class MessageLookup extends MessageLookupByLibrary {
-  get localeName => 'de';
-
-  final messages = {
-    "runAt": (time, day) => Intl.message("Ausgedruckt am $time am $day.")
-  };
-}
diff --git a/example/basic/messages_th_th.dart b/example/basic/messages_th_th.dart
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index c478981..0000000
--- a/example/basic/messages_th_th.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
-// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
-// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-/// This is a library that provides messages for a German locale. All the
-/// messages from the main program should be duplicated here with the same
-/// function name.
-library messages_th_TH;
-
-import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
-import 'package:intl/message_lookup_by_library.dart';
-
-final messages = new MessageLookup();
-
-class MessageLookup extends MessageLookupByLibrary {
-  get localeName => 'th_TH';
-
-  final messages = {
-    "runAt": (time, day) => Intl.message('วิ่ง $time on $day.')
-  };
-}
diff --git a/test/intl_message_basic_example_test.dart b/test/intl_message_basic_example_test.dart
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index a873b23..0000000
--- a/test/intl_message_basic_example_test.dart
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@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
-// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
-// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-/// Tests internationalization of messages using the basic example as a
-/// template.
-library intl_message_test_2;
-
-import '../example/basic/basic_example.dart';
-import 'package:unittest/unittest.dart';
-import 'dart:async';
-
-main() {
-  var list = [];
-  var waitForIt = new Completer();
-
-  addToList(x) {
-    list.add(x);
-    if (list.length == 4) {
-      waitForIt.complete(list);
-    }
-  }
-
-  test('Verify basic example printing localized messages', () {
-    runAllTests(_) {
-      setup(expectAsync(runProgram) as ThenList, addToList);
-    }
-    setup(expectAsync(runAllTests) as ThenList, addToList);
-    waitForIt.future.then(expectAsync((_) {
-      expect(list[0], "Ran at 00:00:00 on Thursday, January 1, 1970");
-      expect(list[1], "Ausgedruckt am 00:00:00 am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 1970.");
-      expect(list[2], "วิ่ง 00:00:00 on วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 1 มกราคม ค.ศ. 1970.");
-      expect(list[3], "วิ่ง now on today.");
-    }));
-  });
-}