I’ve lost bookmarks several times due to computer malfunction.  This was in many ways a travesty in my life because I love my bookmarks.  I’ve recently reformatted my laptop and was happy about the reformat, but I’ve yet to put my bookmarks back where they belong.  Delicious has seemed like a great idea to me for quite some time.  I like searching their bookmarks and tags, but I’ve never actually set up an account.  Partly because I know I don’t have time for it now and partly because I already had my bookmarks organized in just the right way.  Now, that I don’t have my bookmarks organized perfectly on my laptop, it seems like a perfect time to switch over. 

I learned about delicious, but I didn’t learn the answer to the question that’s been nagging at my mind the most.  Why is it Del.icio.us?  Why not just Delicious?  Wikipedia notes that Joshua Schachter, the creator of Delicious, said “I’d registered the domain when .us opened the registry, and a quick test showed me the six letter suffixes that let me generate the most words. In early discussions, a friend referred to finding good links as ‘eating cherries’ and the metaphor stuck, I guess.”  It also notes that they no longer use the dots due to a hack.