The Library of Congress should have bought it, similar to the way it has now archived every tweet ever tweeted.

So much value. So unappreciated. So tragically lost. Where will we all gather next, where our bookmarks can be centralized for maximum network effect?

Me, I was never a Delicious aficionado. Really, all of the social bookmarking/aggregation sites -- Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and so on -- leave me cold. They're either inscrutable to use, or they tend to be with too much time on their hands. Maybe Delicious was different -- but it may be too late, in any case.

On Yahoo's actual hit list: AltaVista, the first great search engine. (Remember when there used to be more than one search engine?) That one stings me more, but only in a nostalgic way -- kind of like when Leslie Nielsen died.

Yahoo has stuffed eight other services into a bag and dragged them down to the river: MyBlogLog, Yahoo Picks, Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo Bookmarks, Fire Eagle, Yahoo Events, Yahoo People, and Sideline. I'm sure they'll be missed by somebody, if only the employees who used to work at them.