Delicious (website)

Delicious
The Delicious home page in 2011
Type of site
Online social bookmarking
OwnerMaciej Cegłowski
Created byJoshua Schachter
URLhttps://del.icio.us
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional; Unavailable
LaunchedSeptember 2003; 21 years ago (2003-09)
Current statusInactive

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]

  1. ^ a b "Pinboard's Dead-Simple Bookmarking Service Is Still Going Strong". TechCrunch. 13 January 2010. Archived from the original on 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  2. ^ "Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview". TechCrunch. 6 September 2007. Archived from the original on 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
  3. ^ "Delicious is 5!". blog.delicious.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-21.
  4. ^ "YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious". blog.delicious.com. Archived from the original on 2011-08-23.
  5. ^ Karunamurthy, Vijay. "The First 20 Hours". AVOS. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  6. ^ Fiegerman, Seth (May 8, 2014). "Bookmarking Site Delicious Acquired for the Third Time in 10 Years". Mashable. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  7. ^ "Delicious Changes". Delicious blog. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  8. ^ Hughes, Matthew (2017-06-01). "It's the end of an era, as Pinboard buys and shutters del.icio.us (UPDATED)". TheNextWeb. Archived from the original on 2023-02-18. Retrieved 2023-02-18.