Pastebin.com
Type of site | Web application |
|---|---|
| Created by | Paul Dixon |
| Website |
pastebin |
| Launched | September 3, 2002[1] |
Pastebin.com is a pastebin website. It was created in 2002, and reached 1 million active pastes (excluding spam and 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. A few weeks after the transfer, Vader launched a 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] 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 deep web .onion links.[9]
The website also features a page for trending public pastes.[10][11]
See also
References
- ↑ "PasteBin.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-12-03.
- 1 2 "Pastebin.com Surpasses 10 Million "Active" Pastes". TechCrunch.com. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
- ↑ "Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became the ultimate hacker hangout". The Next Web. 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2013-03-30.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Trending Pastes". Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ↑ Brian, Matt. "Pastebin: How a popular code-sharing site became the ultimate hacker hangout". The Next Web. Retrieved 3 December 2016.