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A pastebin or text storage site [1] [2] [3] is a type of online content-hosting service where users can store plain text (e.g. source code snippets for code review via Internet Relay Chat (IRC)). The most famous pastebin is the eponymous pastebin.com .
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. [3] It features syntax highlighting for a variety of programming and markup languages, as well as view counters for pastes and user profiles.
The term copypasta is derived from the computer interface term "copy and paste", [1] the act of selecting a piece of text and copying it elsewhere. Usage of the word can be traced back to an anonymous 4chan thread from 2006, [2] [3] and Merriam-Webster record it appearing on Usenet and Urban Dictionary for the first time that year. [1]
A chain letter is a message that attempts to convince the recipient to make a number of copies and pass them on to a certain number of recipients. The "chain" is an exponentially growing pyramid (a tree graph) that cannot be sustained indefinitely.
It is a variant of copypasta (from "copy and paste"), another 4chan term which refers to blocks of text which become viral by being copied widely around the internet. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Unlike copypastas, creepypastas are all horror fiction and also encompass multimedia stories, with creators using videos , images , hyperlinks and GIFs alongside text.
An email inbox containing a large amount of spam messages. Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.
Messaging spam on Telegram. Instant messaging systems, such as Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter Direct Messaging, Kik, Skype and Snapchat are all targets for spammers. [4] Many IM services are publicly linked to social media platforms, which may include information on the user such as age, sex, location and interests.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Online horror fiction Creepypastas are horror -related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort readers. The term "creepypasta" originates ...