Delicious, the famous bookmarking service has turned 5 years old, today. Delicious is a famous online bookmarking service which was bought by Yahoo.

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs.^[1] It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. [via wikipedia]

It’s one of most popular bookmarking service and has created a new avenue for online content publishers to leverage the power of wisdom of crowd and drive traffic to their site using Delicious.

You can check the official Yahoo post here.