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When delicious was created, there was no way to sync bookmarks via "the cloud" like browsers do now.

nl 12y ago
And - crazy as it sounds - there was no really good way to share links. No Twitter or Facebook or Pinterst, so people had to use their blog. Or they could put it on Delicious, and others could subscribe to their feed via RSS (Originally there wasn't a way to view what all your contacts had bookmarked at once). But Pinterst showed how the "social" side of "social bookmarking" should really be done.
- smacktoward 12y ago
  Or they had to email them to their friends! It was a dark age. I remember showing the original del.icio.us to my friends and them all saying "I don't get it." And then I said "instead of emailing everybody links, you can just post them here and we'll all get them automatically" and they went "Ah! Now I get it!"
  - freehunter 12y ago
    But then you have to email your friends to let them know you put a new link out there, so... Edit: Am I wrong?
    - salemh 12y ago
      I believe the point was that those on Delicious shared links through Delicious, not via email. Meaning, yes you in the past had to share links via email. Delicious solved that with both parties on Delicious.
      - freehunter 12y ago
        Yeah I understood that. But unless your friends are constantly checking for new links shared on Delicious, you would have to notify them that you've posted a new link. SMS, phone call, AIM, email, somehow.
        nl 12y ago
        People actually checked Delicious like they checked Twitter or Facebook. Or they subscribed in a RSS reader.
        adrianhoward 12y ago
        You could subscribe via RSS. I had a bunch of delicious feeds that basically just fed me new sh*t on exactly the topic I was interested in. Because they had been tagged by humans I trusted. It was great ;-)
gcb0 12y ago
You just ignore that there still isn't. There is a cloud for each browser. Which is not the same. Also it's all or nothing. And it's all public if you consider the current offerings term of services. With delicious From day one you bookmarklets that worked with anybrowser. And a kickass Mozilla sidebar thingy
- epochwolf 12y ago
  Except that Chrome is available on all of my devices.
baddox 12y ago
I still don't have anything close to a good bookmarking solution that works across all of my devices and applications.

nl 12y ago

And - crazy as it sounds - there was no really good way to share links. No Twitter or Facebook or Pinterst, so people had to use their blog. Or they could put it on Delicious, and others could subscribe to their feed via RSS (Originally there wasn't a way to view what all your contacts had bookmarked at once). But Pinterst showed how the "social" side of "social bookmarking" should really be done.

smacktoward 12y ago
Or they had to email them to their friends! It was a dark age. I remember showing the original del.icio.us to my friends and them all saying "I don't get it." And then I said "instead of emailing everybody links, you can just post them here and we'll all get them automatically" and they went "Ah! Now I get it!"
- freehunter 12y ago
  But then you have to email your friends to let them know you put a new link out there, so... Edit: Am I wrong?
  - salemh 12y ago
    I believe the point was that those on Delicious shared links through Delicious, not via email. Meaning, yes you in the past had to share links via email. Delicious solved that with both parties on Delicious.
    - freehunter 12y ago
      Yeah I understood that. But unless your friends are constantly checking for new links shared on Delicious, you would have to notify them that you've posted a new link. SMS, phone call, AIM, email, somehow.
      - nl 12y ago
        People actually checked Delicious like they checked Twitter or Facebook. Or they subscribed in a RSS reader.
      - adrianhoward 12y ago
        You could subscribe via RSS. I had a bunch of delicious feeds that basically just fed me new sh*t on exactly the topic I was interested in. Because they had been tagged by humans I trusted. It was great ;-)

gcb0 12y ago

You just ignore that there still isn't. There is a cloud for each browser. Which is not the same. Also it's all or nothing. And it's all public if you consider the current offerings term of services. With delicious From day one you bookmarklets that worked with anybrowser. And a kickass Mozilla sidebar thingy

epochwolf 12y ago
Except that Chrome is available on all of my devices.

baddox 12y ago

I still don't have anything close to a good bookmarking solution that works across all of my devices and applications.