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A pastebin is a type of web application where anyone can store text for a certain period of time. This type of website is mainly used by programmers to store pieces of source code or configuration information, but anyone can basically share any type of text. The idea behind pastebins is to make it more convenient for people to share large amounts of text online.
A vast number of pastebin related websites exist on the Internet, suiting a number of different needs and providing features tailored towards the crowd they focus on most.[citation needed]
Pastebin.com [edit]
It took 8 years for Pastebin.com to surpass 10 million "Active" pastes (not spam or expired pastes).[1] Less than a year later the owners of Pastebin.com tweeted that they had already surpased the 20 million active pastes mark.[2][3]
In February 2010, Pastebin.com was sold by the original owner, Paul Dixon to Jeroen Vader, a Dutch serial Internet entrepreneur.[4] Only a few weeks after the transfer, Mr. Vader had launched a whole new version of the website which he branded V2.0. In early 2011 V3.0 launched.
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References [edit]
- ^ "Pastebin.com Surpasses 10 Million "Active" Pastes". Retrieved October 27, 2011.
- ^ "Twitter / pastebin: Time for cake!!!". Twitter.com. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ^ "Pastebin.com Surpasses 20 Million "Active" Pastes". Retrieved July 4, 2012.
- ^ "Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became the ultimate hacker hangout". 2011-06-05. Archived from the original on 2013-03-30. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
