Pastebin.com
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Type of site | Web application |
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| Created by | Paul Dixon |
| URL | pastebin |
| Launched | September 3, 2002[1] |
Pastebin.com is a pastebin website. It was created in 2002 by Paul Dixon, and reached 1 million active pastes (excluding spam and expired pastes) eight years later, in 2010.[2]
By October 2011, the site's active pastes numbers exceeded 10 million.[2] In July 2012, the owners of Pastebin.com tweeted that they had already surpassed the 20 million active pastes mark.[3] On June 9, 2015, they announced they had reached 65 million active pastes.[4] They also mentioned that around 75% of pastes are either unlisted or private.[5]
In 2015 Pastebin.com reached 95 million active pastes, and more than 2 million members.[6]
During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Pastebin.com was blocked by the country's government as one of the sites where activists were sharing information.[7]
Pastebin.com is a popular source of dark web .onion links.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "PasteBin.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- ^ a b "Pastebin.com Surpasses 10 Million "Active" Pastes". TechCrunch.com. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
- ^ Pastebin [@pastebin] (2012-07-04). "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..."".
- ^ "Pastebin on Twitter".
- ^ Biggs, John. "Pastebin, The Text Sharing Website, Updates With An Emphasis On Code".
- ^ "Internet a crucial Venezuela battleground". Jamaica Observer. Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica Observer. Associated Press. 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
- ^ Koebler, Jason (23 February 2015). "The Closest Thing to a Map of the Dark Net: Pastebin - motherboard.vice.com". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
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