# Delicious

Closed (down). Founded 2003-09-01. Closed 2020-06-01.
Site: del.icio.us

Joshua Schachter, 2003. Saved by Pinboard. Buried by owners who wanted a brand, not a utility.

## Why it lasted
- Social bookmarks. Tags. The first time a lot of the web learned folksonomy.

## Near deaths
- Yahoo bought it, sat on it, tried to kill it, sold it. Pinboard was the lifeboat.

## What would finish it
- A long decline and a 2020-era shutdown of the original idea. The domain kept getting reused. The product died.

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