Delicious (originally del.icio.us) let people save bookmarks with tags and see what everyone else was saving. It had defined social bookmarking since 2003, but in December 2010 a leaked Yahoo slide labelled it "sunset", setting off a scramble to export bookmarks.
- Domain in 2010
- delicious.com
- Launched
- September 2003
- Founders
- Joshua Schachter
- Owner in 2010
- Yahoo!
- Status today
- Shut down
What people used it for
- Saving and tagging bookmarks
- Following others' saved links
Interface characteristics
- Blue-and-white list of links with tag clouds
- Save counts next to popular links
Notable features
- Tags before tags were everywhere
- Popular and Recent pages
What happened later
Delicious was sold to AVOS in 2011, changed hands twice more, and was absorbed by Pinboard in 2017.
Archived on the Wayback Machine
Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.
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