Type of site | Online social bookmarking |
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Owner | Maciej Cegłowski |
Created by | Joshua Schachter |
URL | https://del.icio.us |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional; Unavailable |
Launched | September 2003 |
Current status | Inactive |
Delicious[1] (stylized del.icio.us) was a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter and Peter Gadjokov in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs.[1][2][3] Yahoo sold Delicious to AVOS Systems in April 2011,[4] and the site relaunched in a "back to beta" state on September 27 that year.[5] In May 2014, AVOS sold the site to Science Inc.[6] In January 2016 Delicious Media, a new alliance, reported it had assumed control of the service.[7]
In June 2017 Delicious was acquired by Pinboard, and the bookmarking service was discontinued.[8]