Today is Pinboard's sixth birthday as an online service, but of course the roots of the site go much deeper.
My grandfather started Pinboard all the way back in 1931, when he was a young agronomy {(Ancient Greek ἀγρός agrós 'field' + νόμος nómos 'law') is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation.} student in need of some way to help keep track of cuttings.
What began as a simple system of shelves and apple saplings had soon expanded to encompass the books in his comfortable study.
In 1968, like so much of Polish culture, Pinboard went underground, in this case literally, as a warren of tubes and cables that could be quickly disconnected if a local political officer came snooping by. The rat's nest of hidden cabling below the floor would inspire me years later when it came time to wire up my own servers.
By 1980 Pinboard was an elaborate system of strings and pulleys cross-referencing material across five bookshelves and a greenhouse. / :) // One of my earliest memories is tugging on one of the threads and watching a cloud of white bookmarks fly out from between the onion-skin pages of a thick tome. I got a sound drubbing for it.t
With changing times came changing technology. Visits home turned into long evenings keying cards into a ZX Spectrum, lulled into inattention by the soft hiss of the cassette tapes that the data would save onto (or the dreaded crinkling sound that meant the tape had gotten wrapped up in a spool).
When it came time for me to take over Pinboard, I vowed to continue my grandfather's committment to Eastern European craftsmanship and traditional Polish customer service. But then I got bored and thought, "eh, just put it online and see what happens." That was six years ago today. {July 2009}
I changed the business model of the site in January [2015] from a one-time signup fee to a recurring fee, but has this affected income? It doesn't feel like it. Possibly it has. I really need to look into it. I am a terrible businessman. Thanks for another year entrusting me with your precious data, and giving me the genuinely pleasant feeling that comes from running a useful project. Please don't forget to make backups!
—maciej July 09, 2015
// am happy he is still maintaining this….
/my links stop at 2014, bcs stopped auto mirroring dlcs, that's ok.
https://pinboard.in/u:mcassimatis/
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Since the birth of the site, Pinboard has always offered a Delicious sync feature. You could enter your Delicious username on the settings page, and the site would periodically poll your public Delicious feed and add any new bookmarks it found.
Because Delicious appears to be in a terminal coma, and because working around bugs in their RSS feed has historically consumed a lot of development time, I am going to turn Delicious sync off effective October 1, 2014. If you want to keep hooking the services together, you will still be able to do it through an outside service like IFTTT or Zapier.
Of course you will still be able to import all your Delicious bookmarks, as well as export Pinboard bookmarks in a format that Delicious can (sometimes) read. The only thing going away is the automatic sync.
—maciej on August 21, 2014
// wld hv used this, m prefered to the new delicious, but as of 2009 was I fading......
was glad for the auto sync, so I cld defer initiating chang...
was glad for the auto sync, so I cld defer initiating chang...
/// was maciej a del.ici.o.us user, wanted to make sth simple interface emphasis on content like had bn?
wh I seem remember. may have saved early posts about, as dlcs>pin.
https://thuktun.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/an-interview-with-maciej-ceglowski-of-pinboard/
built Pinboard because I had long wanted a bookmarking site that would serve as a personal archive (meaning store bookmark content in case the original site went offline). I was also motivated by the Delicious redesign around the summer of 2009, which I found very unpleasant.
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