Pastebin.com
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Type of site | Web application |
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| Created by | Paul Dixon |
| URL | pastebin |
| IPv6 support | Yes |
| Registration | Optional (required for creating private pastes.) |
| Users | 17 million (2019)[1] |
| Launched | September 3, 2002[2] |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | PHP |
Pastebin.com is a text storage site. It was created on September 3, 2002 by Paul Dixon, and reached 1 million active pastes (excluding spam and expired pastes) eight years later, in 2010.[3]
It features syntax highlighting for a variety of programming and markup languages, as well as view counters for pastes and user profiles. Users can submit pastes as guests without registration, but an account allows managing pastes.
History
By October 2011, the site's active pastes numbers exceeded 10 million.[3] In July 2012, the owners of Pastebin.com tweeted that they had already surpassed the 20 million active pastes mark.[4] On June 9, 2015, they announced they had reached 65 million active pastes.[5] They also mentioned that around 75% of pastes are either unlisted or private.[6]
During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Pastebin.com was blocked by the country's government as one of the sites were used by activists sharing information pertaining to the protests.[7]
In 2015, Pastebin.com reached 95 million active pastes, and more than 2 million members.[8]
In April 2020, Pastebin.com removed their built-in search feature and restricted their web scraping API, including for paid lifetime subscribers of Pastebin Pro. As an additional spam prevention measure, pastes from users not logged in are hidden from the list of recent pastes, visible in the site's side bar.[9]
In September 2020, two new features were added to the site. Users became able to password-protect pastes from viewing and request the paste be deleted immediately once viewed.[10][11]
On October 14, 2020, the terms of service were updated and the mention that contributions were CC BY-SA was removed.[12]
Pastebin.com is a popular source of dark web .onion links.[13]
See also
References
- ^ "What is Pastebin and Why Do Hackers Love It?". www.echosec.net. Echosec Systems. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
- ^ "PasteBin.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
- ^ a b "Pastebin.com Surpasses 10 Million "Active" Pastes". TechCrunch.com. October 26, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
- ^ Pastebin [@pastebin] (July 4, 2012). "Time for cake!!! Pastebin.com now hosts more than 20 million active pastes! Stats -> pastebin.com/stats" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Pastebin on Facebook: "Pastebin reached another big milestone yesterday..."". Facebook.
- ^ Pastebin [@pastebin] (June 25, 2015). "Fun fact, over 75% of all pastes created on Pastebin these days are unlisted or private" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Internet a crucial Venezuela battleground". Jamaica Observer. Kingston, Jamaica. Associated Press. February 23, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
- ^ Biggs, John (December 16, 2015). "Pastebin, The Text Sharing Website, Updates With An Emphasis On Code".
- ^ "Pastebin Made It Harder To Scrape Its Site And Researchers Are Pissed Off". www.vice.com.
- ^ September 2020, Anthony Spadafora 28 (September 28, 2020). "Pastebin may have just doomed us all". TechRadar. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ online, heise. "Pastebin.com: Zwei neue Features könnten Malware-Machern in die Hände spielen". Security (in German). Retrieved September 30, 2020.
- ^ "Pastebin.com Terms of Service UPDATED". Archived from the original on October 14, 2020.
- ^ Koebler, Jason (February 23, 2015). "The Closest Thing to a Map of the Dark Net: Pastebin". Motherboard. Retrieved July 14, 2015.
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