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, then sold to AVOS Systems on April 27, 2011.[2] By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs.