Pastebin.com

Pastebin
Type of site
 Web application
Created by Paul Dixon
Website www.pastebin.com
Launched September 3, 2002 (2002-09-03)[1]

Pastebin.com is a pastebin website. Although created in 2002, Pastebin.com only reached 1 million "active" pastes (not spam or expired pastes) eight years later, in 2010.[2] In February 2010, Pastebin.com was sold by the original owner, Paul Dixon, to Jeroen Vader, a Dutch serial Internet entrepreneur. Only a few weeks after the transfer, Vader had launched a whole new version of the website which he branded V2.0. In early 2011, V3.0 was launched.[3]

By October 2011, the site's active pastes numbers exceeded 10 million.[2] Less than a year later, 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]

In 2015 Pastebin.com reached 95 million active pastes, and more than 2 million members.[7]

During the 2014 Venezuelan protests, Pastebin.com was blocked by the country's government as one of the sites where activists were sharing information.[8]

Pastebin.com is a popular source of dark web .onion links.[9]

The website also features a page for trending public pastes.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "PasteBin.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
  2. 1 2 "Pastebin.com Surpasses 10 Million "Active" Pastes". TechCrunch.com. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
  3. ↑ "Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became the ultimate hacker hangout". The Next Web. 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
  4. ↑ "Twitter / pastebin: Time for cake!!! Pastebin.com now hosts more than 20 million active pastes! Stats -> pastebin.com/stats". Twitter.com. 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  5. ↑ "Pastebin on Facebook: "Pastebin reached another big milestone yesterday..."".
  6. ↑ "Pastebin on Twitter".
  7. ↑ Biggs, John. "Pastebin, The Text Sharing Website, Updates With An Emphasis On Code".
  8. ↑ "Internet a crucial Venezuela battleground". Jamaica Observer. Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica Observer. Associated Press. 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-08-20.
  9. ↑ Koebler, Jason (23 February 2015). "The Closest Thing to a Map of the Dark Net: Pastebin - motherboard.vice.com". Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Trending Pastes". Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  11. ↑ Brian, Matt. "Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became the ultimate hacker hangout". The Next Web. Retrieved 3 December 2016.

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