Delicious
You might remember it as del.icio.us, social bookmarking
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2003·Early web, before YouTube
A site for saving web addresses in public and labelling them with any words the saver chose.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- del.icio.us
- Spread in
- 2003
- Made by
- Joshua Schachter
- Original title
- del.icio.us, an address that spelt the word using the .us suffix
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
del.icio.us: save a link, tag it, see everyone else's. It popularised tagging as a way of organising anything, and its odd domain spelling was itself an early internet in-joke.
Why it matteredWhat changed
Its free-form labels, which anybody could follow, popularised the practice of tagging. It was sold five times and is now a read-only archive.
TimelineIn order
- Made
The site is launched.1
- Later
Yahoo buys it, for what its founder says was less than thirty million dollars.1
- Record
It claims 5.3 million users and 180 million saved addresses.1
- Later
Yahoo sells it, the first of four further sales.1
- Taken down
Its last buyer, a rival bookmarking service, makes it read-only.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
SourcesWhat was read
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