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Apastebin ortext storage site[1][2][3] is a type of online content-hosting service where users can storeplain text (e.g.source codesnippets forcode review viaInternet Relay Chat (IRC)). The most famous pastebin is the eponymouspastebin.com.[citation needed] Other sites with the same functionality have appeared, and severalopen source pastebin scripts are available. Pastebins may allow commenting where readers can post feedback directly on the page.GitHub Gists are a type of pastebin withversion control.[4]
Pastebin was developed in the late 1990s to facilitate IRC chatrooms devoted tocomputing, where users naturally need to share large blocks of computer input or output in a line-oriented medium.[5] 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.[citation needed]
A new class ofIRC bot 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 abot announcing the expected posting by the known user.[citation needed]
After the use of the pastebin.pl pastebin for adata breach, Pastebin started monitoring the site for illegally pasted data and information, leading to a backlash fromAnonymous. Hacktivists teamed up with an organization calling itself the People's Liberation Front, launching an alternative called AnonPaste.[6][7]
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