Pinboard is so old that when it started TEN YEARS AGO TODAY the site earned huge publicity for charging money. The original pricing plan (increase price fractionally with each user) was a bit of marketing genius from @joshu, who is a marketing genius.https://techcrunch.com/2009/07/12/want-to-give-pinboard-a-try-youll-have-to-pay-284/ …
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Also, Pinterest tried to swipe my domain name, even though they launched after me. Fortunately at the time, the pinboard-dot-com guy was an oddball European Linux zealot who refused to sell. I will never forgive Pinterest for this and I am biding my time, watching, waiting.
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In 2009, bookmarks on the site were still saved as cuneiform tablets, which I would carefully pack in straw
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and i feel like some of us are more appreciative because we know paying money for pin means a higher level product we're getting too . at least thats how i feel. yay no ads and tech support that actually responds
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