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2003 - 2017
Delicious (del.icio.us)
“Tagged: toread, later, someday.”
- Birth year
- 2003
- Shutdown year
- 2017
- Lifespan
- 14 years
- Peak era
- 2005-2008
- Company
- Yahoo! / AVOS / Pinboard
- Category
- Web Utilities
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What Was It?
Delicious, written del.icio.us in its early days, turned bookmarks from a private browser menu into something social. Save a link, add a few tags, and you could see what thousands of other people had saved under the same words.
Founded by Joshua Schachter and Peter Gadjokov in 2003, it became a symbol of the Web 2.0 era and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By 2008 it claimed more than five million users and 180 million bookmarked URLs, and its popular page was a daily guide to what the web was reading.
Yahoo! sold it in 2011, and Delicious passed through several owners before Pinboard acquired it in 2017 and discontinued the service, leaving its archive read-only.
Things You Probably Forgot
- Typing the dots in del.icio.us correctly
- Tag clouds in the blog sidebar
- Bookmarking things you would definitely read later
- The popular page as a front page of the web
The Story
- 2003 Joshua Schachter and Peter Gadjokov founded del.icio.us.
- 2005 Yahoo! acquired the service.
- 2008 Delicious claimed more than 5.3 million users.
- 2011 Yahoo! sold Delicious to AVOS Systems.
- 2017 Pinboard acquired Delicious and discontinued it.
How It Died
After changing hands several times from 2011, Delicious was acquired by Pinboard in June 2017 and the bookmarking service was discontinued.
What Replaced It?
Memories
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