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A bookmark is a thin marker, commonly made from paper or leather, used to keep one's place in a printed work and so be able to return to it with ease at some time in the future.
From this usage comes the modern Internet meaning of a bookmark. Bookmarks are pointers – primarily to URLs – built-in to the various Internet web browsers. Bookmarks have been incorporated into almost every browser since the Mosaic web browser and are normally stored on the software client. A folder metaphor may be used for organization. Various shareware utilities and server-side web utilities have been developed to better manage bookmarks, yet none has gained widespread acceptance.
The bookmarks within Internet Explorer (and therefore within Microsoft Windows) are called Favorites. By virtue of the large proportion of people using Internet Explorer, the term Favorite has become virtually synonymous with bookmark in this respect.
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The World of Bookmarks and The Art of Bookmark presented by Mirage Bookmark (http://www.miragebookmark.ch/)
Bookmark-Manager.com (http://www.bookmark-manager.com/)
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