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)).
[citation needed] Other sites with the same functionality have appeared, and several open source pastebin scripts are available.
[citation needed] Pastebin was developed in the late 1990s to facilitate IRC chatrooms devoted to computing, where users naturally need to share large blocks of computer input or output in a line-oriented medium.
[4] In such chatrooms, sending messages containing large blocks of computer data can disrupt conversations, which can be closely interleaved.
The receiving party then awaits a bot announcing the expected posting by the known user.