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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the type of web application. For the website, see <a href="Pastebin.com" title="Pastebin.com">Pastebin.com</a>.</div>

<p>A <b>pastebin</b> or <b>text storage site</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a type of online content-hosting service where users can store <a href="Plain_text" title="Plain text">plain text</a> (e.g. <a href="Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a> <a href="Snippet_(programming)" title="Snippet (programming)">snippets</a> for <a href="Code_review" title="Code review">code review</a> via <a href="Internet_Relay_Chat" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet Relay Chat">Internet Relay Chat</a> (IRC)). The most famous pastebin is the eponymous <a href="Pastebin.com" title="Pastebin.com">pastebin.com</a>. Other sites with the same functionality have appeared, and several <a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open source</a> pastebin scripts are available. Pastebins may allow commenting where readers can post feedback directly on the page. <a href="GitHub" title="GitHub">GitHub</a> Gists are a type of pastebin with <a href="Version_control" title="Version control">version control</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p>Pastebin was developed in the late 1990s to facilitate IRC chatrooms devoted to <a href="Computing" title="Computing">computing</a>, where users naturally need to share large blocks of computer input or output in a line-oriented medium.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In such chatrooms, sending messages containing large blocks of computer data can disrupt conversations, which can be closely interleaved. When users send such messages, they are often warned to instead use pastebins or risk being banned from the service. Contrarily, a reference to a pastebin entry is a one-line hyperlink.

</p><p>A new class of <a href="IRC_bot" title="IRC bot">IRC bot</a> has evolved. In a chatroom that is largely oriented around a few pastebins, nothing more needs to be done after a post at its pastebin. The receiving party then awaits a <a href="IRC_bot" title="IRC bot">bot</a> announcing the expected posting by the known user.

</p><p>After the use of the pastebin.pl pastebin for a <a href="Data_breach" title="Data breach">data breach</a>, Pastebin started monitoring the site for illegally pasted data and information, leading to a backlash from <a href="Anonymous_(group)" class="mw-redirect" title="Anonymous (group)">Anonymous</a>. Hacktivists teamed up with an organization calling itself the People's Liberation Front, launching an alternative called AnonPaste.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="Doxbin_(clearnet)" title="Doxbin (clearnet)">Doxbin (clearnet)</a></li>

<li><a href="Etiquette_in_technology#Netiquette" title="Etiquette in technology">Netiquette</a></li>

<li><a href="Pastebin.com" title="Pastebin.com">Pastebin.com</a></li>

<li><a href="PrivateBin" title="PrivateBin">PrivateBin</a></li>

<li><a href="Snippet_(programming)" title="Snippet (programming)">Snippet (programming)</a></li>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFRobertson2012" class="citation web cs1">Robertson, Adi (April 3, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/3/2922151/pastebin-hiring-people-to-proactively-remove-sensitive-information">"Pastebin Hiring People to Proactively Remove 'Sensitive Information,' Says Owner"</a>. The Verge. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170220093843/http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/3/2922151/pastebin-hiring-people-to-proactively-remove-sensitive-information">Archived</a> from the original on February 20, 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 19,</span> 2017</span>.</cite></span>

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