Safari bookmarks disappeared on old imac after buying new macbook

Hi, I am new to these forums. I have an issue with the bookmarks on safari and have not been able to find a solution thus far.
Basically what happened is; I had a lot of bookmarks on Safari on my 2008 iMac. A few months ago I purchased a macbook pro for college and have used my iMac little since. Today I booted up my iMac to find a website I was looking for from my old bookmarks but they were all gone - replaced with the new ones I had made on my macbook. I tried turning off Safari in the settings for iCloud but to no avail.
Does anyone know of another way I can get my bookmarks back?
Btw, I do not have time machine set up, unfortunately...

Is the backup a Time Machine backup or a cloned backup? If the latter, then locate the old /Home/Music/iTunes/ folder and copy it into the new /Home/Music/ folder. Answer "Yes" when asked if you want to replace a folder by the same name. Everything that was in the iTunes folder should transfer to the new machine including all the music tracks that were originally there. If you never put the tracks into the iTunes Library, then they would be elsewhere on the computer or not there at all.

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