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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. [3] It features syntax highlighting for a variety of programming and markup languages, as well as view counters for pastes and user profiles.
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 .
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]
Copypasta is a section of text which is and has been frequently copied and pasted, optionally with slight modifications, often for humorous effect or absolutely nonsensical reasons. Note: Searching for "copypasta" in wikipedia redirects to the article on 4chan although the article bears no mention of it whatsoever.
The sentence "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents", in Zalgo textZalgo text is generated by excessively adding various diacritical marks in the form of Unicode combining characters to the letters in a string of digital text. [4]
Copy-and-paste programming, sometimes referred to as just pasting, is the production of highly repetitive computer programming code, as produced by copy and paste operations. It is primarily a pejorative term; those who use the term are often implying a lack of programming competence and ability to create abstractions.
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.
The word creepypasta first appeared on 4chan, an online imageboard, around 2007.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.