Japanese company's del.icio.us alternative celebrates 20th anniversary this year

Hatena Bookmark, a social bookmarking service by Hatena Inc. that launched on February 10, 2005, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

The service was launched as a Japanese alternative to del.icio.us, the world's number one social bookmarking service, and even now, 20 years later, it is still actively running, with hundreds of people bookmarking dozens of articles every day.

Incidentally, Hatena Inc., the company that operates this service, is world-famous for its work as the outsourced administrator of the social media portion of Nintendo Co., Ltd.'s Filipnote Studio, and for developing the "SplatNet" app for Nintendo's Splatoon series of games.