pastebin.com

Also known as Pastebin

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.

Key facts

Website.name: Pastebin
Website.logo: Pastebin.com logo.png
Website.logo_size: 150px
Website.logo_alt: Pastebin.com logo
Website.logo_caption: <!-- or:
Website.logocaption: -->
Website.screenshot: Pastebin.com screenshot.png
Website.ipv6: Yes
Website.type: Web application
Website.registration: Optional (required for creating private pastes)
Website.num_users: 17 million (2019)
Website.content_license: <!-- or:
Website.content_licence: -->
Website.programming_language: PHP
Website.owner: <!-- or:
Website.owners: -->
Website.author: Paul Dixon
Website.editor: <!-- or:

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Official website

Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: pastebin
Country: United States
Official website: pastebin.com

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Alexa rank: 2508
inception: 2002-09-03
social media followers: 49922
number of registered users/contributors: 17000000
Commons category: Pastebin.com
language of work or name: English language

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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.

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pastebin.com” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.