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This is old school weird web! For those who did not experience it, del.icio.us was a bookmarking service, and one of the first to have "tags", but also had a s

This is old school weird web! For those who did not experience it, del.icio.us was a bookmarking service, and one of the first to have "tags", but also had a sense of fresh discovery. You can bookmark and tag your sites. But you can also browse the bookmarks and tags of people you know, and people they know, getting deeper, freed from algorithmic manipulation. Like Wikipedia, but you start at you.

lowwave 6y ago
did they get bought by yahoo a long long time ago?
- millstone 6y ago
  They did, and let it rot, before shutting it down. At the time it seemed like a huge waste. But perhaps, if you can escape becoming the yahoo/AOL/etc homepage, you have a chance to live again.
_the_inflator 6y ago
Yep, I have fond memories of delicious (they featured a browser add-on to ease the bookmarking process). Delicious, Digg, Technorati, StumbledUpon - those were the days!
- piva00 6y ago
  Delicious, Digg, StumbledUpon and slashdot were my main fresh content feed back in the days, found so many useful articles and fun websites through them...
  - doctor_eval 6y ago
    And Freshmeat...
- pedrocx486 6y ago
  I'm still sad at how Technorati ended, loved the service back then.
- EE84M3i 6y ago
  >StumbledUpon StumbleUpon I have very fond memories of spending hours clicking 'stumble' during the early years of high school.
Scarblac 6y ago
Was there a way to find people with the same link(s)? I don't think I'm going to get anybody I know starting to use this again, but I'm going to try it out. No algorithms. What a refreshing idea!
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  Yes you could see who had bookmarked what you had and how many people had bookmarked it. Every now and then I would take something I had bookmarked that was not widely bookmarked and go through the people who had bookmarked it like me to find relevant stuff under the tag they had bookmarked it. Was a great way to find new content.
  - mercer 6y ago
    I still haven't found something that is quite as good as delicious was for finding other 'curators' with similar tastes (and then being able to filter what they curated by tag, iirc).
  - diroussel 6y ago
    Yes I did this too. I found some great links this way. I was crawling a web of links. Also I bookmarked some random mp3 files and used the same tag for all of them. Then o took the RSS feed for that tag and subscribed to it in iTunes and then I had a custom podcast I could add to anytime just by adding a new bookmark.
    - joshu 6y ago
      i remember writing the code to enable that to happen. only took an afternoon. you could also get an rss feed of EVERYONE's mp3s under a given tag, and have a group podcast feed...
  - EricE 6y ago
    I used Limewire the same way for music - you could browse other sharers directories. I found more off the wall stuff that I liked that otherwise I would have never found. My spending on CDs went up dramatically too (something the music industry swore wouldn’t happen).
ngcazz 6y ago
100%. Loved how anything you could reach navigating it with a browser could also be exported to RSS. Around 2007 I had kind of my own personal video podcast by subscribing to the del.icio.us video tag on iTunes for example
curation 6y ago
I was so sad when del.icio.us stopped. I wonder if old logins will work - I still remember mine!
- h2onock 6y ago
  It sounds like they will, if you go to http://del.icio.us/ http://del.icio.us/ you'll see: July 15, 2020 Hi, my name is Maciej Ceglowski, the latest (and hopefully last) owner of del.icio.us. The site will be back online soon. If you had data stored on del.icio.us after 2010, you'll be able to export it here. If you had data on the site before 2010, whether I still have it depends on whether you completed the "opt-in" process in 2011, when Yahoo transferred the site to AVOS. I'll do my best to get everything I can back online this summer! You can reach me at maciej@ceglowski.com
- idlewords 6y ago
  Yeah, they should work. Mine does, at least! I'll have a live login page up soon.
1f60c 6y ago
I remember seeing it on AddThis widgets (remember those?), but I’ve never used it so this was really insightful.
hiccuphippo 6y ago
At some point I started searching directly in del.icio.us over google because it would give me higher quality results. I guess someone bookmarking a site was proof enough it was useful.
- smolder 6y ago
  Sadly that never lasts for long. Fake users trickle in, exploitative bookmarks get added, then it all goes to shit, much like the search-driven web did in general.
smolder 6y ago
Old school is web 2.0? I'm really old, I guess.
- kome 6y ago
  ahaha! i was thinking the same...
- jaeming 6y ago
  yeah, it was still "new Web" in my mind. Old Web is pre dot-com era.
crispyambulance 6y ago
del.icio.us along with Flickr were the darlings of the old "Web 2.0" ethos. In particular, I think it was del.icio.us that introduced or at least popularized "tag clouds". I now am using google keep, but if Ceglowski can bring back and freshen up the old del.icio.us, I will switch over. Now... somebody resurrect google reader :-)

lowwave 6y ago

did they get bought by yahoo a long long time ago?

millstone 6y ago
They did, and let it rot, before shutting it down. At the time it seemed like a huge waste. But perhaps, if you can escape becoming the yahoo/AOL/etc homepage, you have a chance to live again.

_the_inflator 6y ago

Yep, I have fond memories of delicious (they featured a browser add-on to ease the bookmarking process). Delicious, Digg, Technorati, StumbledUpon - those were the days!

piva00 6y ago
Delicious, Digg, StumbledUpon and slashdot were my main fresh content feed back in the days, found so many useful articles and fun websites through them...
- doctor_eval 6y ago
  And Freshmeat...
pedrocx486 6y ago
I'm still sad at how Technorati ended, loved the service back then.
EE84M3i 6y ago
>StumbledUpon StumbleUpon I have very fond memories of spending hours clicking 'stumble' during the early years of high school.

Scarblac 6y ago

Was there a way to find people with the same link(s)? I don't think I'm going to get anybody I know starting to use this again, but I'm going to try it out. No algorithms. What a refreshing idea!

bryanrasmussen 6y ago
Yes you could see who had bookmarked what you had and how many people had bookmarked it. Every now and then I would take something I had bookmarked that was not widely bookmarked and go through the people who had bookmarked it like me to find relevant stuff under the tag they had bookmarked it. Was a great way to find new content.
- mercer 6y ago
  I still haven't found something that is quite as good as delicious was for finding other 'curators' with similar tastes (and then being able to filter what they curated by tag, iirc).
- diroussel 6y ago
  Yes I did this too. I found some great links this way. I was crawling a web of links. Also I bookmarked some random mp3 files and used the same tag for all of them. Then o took the RSS feed for that tag and subscribed to it in iTunes and then I had a custom podcast I could add to anytime just by adding a new bookmark.
  - joshu 6y ago
    i remember writing the code to enable that to happen. only took an afternoon. you could also get an rss feed of EVERYONE's mp3s under a given tag, and have a group podcast feed...
- EricE 6y ago
  I used Limewire the same way for music - you could browse other sharers directories. I found more off the wall stuff that I liked that otherwise I would have never found. My spending on CDs went up dramatically too (something the music industry swore wouldn’t happen).

ngcazz 6y ago

100%. Loved how anything you could reach navigating it with a browser could also be exported to RSS. Around 2007 I had kind of my own personal video podcast by subscribing to the del.icio.us video tag on iTunes for example

curation 6y ago

I was so sad when del.icio.us stopped. I wonder if old logins will work - I still remember mine!

h2onock 6y ago
It sounds like they will, if you go to http://del.icio.us/ http://del.icio.us/ you'll see: July 15, 2020 Hi, my name is Maciej Ceglowski, the latest (and hopefully last) owner of del.icio.us. The site will be back online soon. If you had data stored on del.icio.us after 2010, you'll be able to export it here. If you had data on the site before 2010, whether I still have it depends on whether you completed the "opt-in" process in 2011, when Yahoo transferred the site to AVOS. I'll do my best to get everything I can back online this summer! You can reach me at maciej@ceglowski.com
idlewords 6y ago
Yeah, they should work. Mine does, at least! I'll have a live login page up soon.

1f60c 6y ago

I remember seeing it on AddThis widgets (remember those?), but I’ve never used it so this was really insightful.

hiccuphippo 6y ago

At some point I started searching directly in del.icio.us over google because it would give me higher quality results. I guess someone bookmarking a site was proof enough it was useful.

smolder 6y ago
Sadly that never lasts for long. Fake users trickle in, exploitative bookmarks get added, then it all goes to shit, much like the search-driven web did in general.

smolder 6y ago

Old school is web 2.0? I'm really old, I guess.

kome 6y ago
ahaha! i was thinking the same...
jaeming 6y ago
yeah, it was still "new Web" in my mind. Old Web is pre dot-com era.

crispyambulance 6y ago

del.icio.us along with Flickr were the darlings of the old "Web 2.0" ethos. In particular, I think it was del.icio.us that introduced or at least popularized "tag clouds". I now am using google keep, but if Ceglowski can bring back and freshen up the old del.icio.us, I will switch over. Now... somebody resurrect google reader :-)