What is Pastebin?

Pastebin is a web application allowing users to store plain text, so that they can refer to it with a simple hyperlink rather than having to paste the entire text elsewhere. Pastebin has been used steadily since the days of IRC. It is used as a path for sharing simple code, text, hacked materials, and exploits.

In this article, we will explore several pastebin services.

1. Pastebin.com

Pastebin.com is the father of pastebin service. It was created in 2002, and reached 10 million active pastes - excluding spam and expired pastes - nine years pater, in 2011. By December 2015, Pastebin.com reached 95 million active pastes, and more than 2 million members.

Pastebin.com is a historic site with lots of hacked materials and exploits.

Below is a feature of Pastebin.com

• Page for trending public pastes
• Paste expiration
• Syntax Highlighting
• Cool features with PRO account
  • Remove ADs, Captcha's
  • Unlimited private pastes
  • Increase max paste size (500kb -> 10mb)
  • Developer API
  • Awesome PRO badge
  • ... and so on

2. Gist.github.com

Gist is a pastebin service from GitHub, the most popular Git hosting company. Similar to GitHub, it features fork, revision, and other features.

Gist features are as follows.

• Fork, star, comment
• Revision history
• Embed code in other sites
• Syntax Highlighting
• Go to the GitHub profile page on the Gist profile page

3. Pastiebin.com

Pastiebin.com is one letter different from Pastebin.com. Compared to other pastebin services, it offers fewer features but offers a fresh feature called Share Screen. You can also create an image paste on Pastiebin.com

4. 0bin.net

Other pastebin services store paste in server, while 0bin stores paste in user's web browser. Contents of the paste are stored in the localStorage of web browser via AES256 encryption.

0bin is an open source project. You can check the source code in GitHub repository.

5. pastebin korea

Pastebin korea is pastebin service operated by Korean developer. It was created in 2015, and actually has no other special features.

Conclusion

Don't send it to WhatsApp when you share code or files. Instead, try pastebin service. You can easily share paste with pastebin.

It is important to note, however, that data on pastebin might not be confidential.