Social bookmarking site Delicious is finally getting shut down

What can be considered a piece of internet history is finally getting shut down. Social bookmarking site Delicious has met its end after Pinboard acquired the site for reportedly US$35 thousand. Before social booking marking sites like Pocket, Pinterest, and Pinboard became popular. Delicious was a tool early internet users relied on to store and share bookmarks.

Starting June 15^th, it’ll become a read-only site. Users won’t be able to save new bookmarks but you will still have access to your existing collections. As expected, Pinboard owner Maciej Cegłowsk is encouraging people to migrate to his site and says a disabled export feature will be reactivated if people want to bring their files elsewhere. Cegłowsk bought the service because he says he doesn’t want it to “disappear from the web” but he also warns people to “not attempt to compete with Pinboard.

Source: The Verge