
218 ◾ Web 2.0 and Beyond: Principles and Technologies
than the kind of online journal or commentary we are familiar with today, and as such it
needed to handle large numbers of links to other websites.
Schachter had over 20,000 webpage bookmarks in a le and he wanted a way to organise
them, so he wrote a programme, which he called MuxWay, that organised the links based
on tags. Interest in his solution grew and following a rewrite of the system he launched it
on the Web as del.icio.us. He presented an early version of the system at Foo Camp,
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2003.
At the camp his demonstration impressed Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen, who
provided ...