"Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements internet site with sections devoted to work, real estate, offer for sale, things wanted, solutions, community service, gigs, résumés, and also conversation online forums.

Craig Newmark started the solution in 1995 as an email circulation checklist to good friends, including neighborhood events in the San Francisco Bay Location. It ended up being a web-based solution in 1996 and expanded right into various other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. cities in 2000, and also now covers 70 nations.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese became the initial non-English languages Craigslist sustained. Since August 9, 2012, over 700 cities and also areas in 70 countries had Craigslist websites. Some Craigslist websites cover large regions instead of individual cities-- for instance, the U.S. states of Delaware and also Wyoming, the Colorado Western Incline, the California Gold Nation, and also the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are amongst the areas with their own Craigslist websites. Craigslist websites for some large cities, such as Los Angeles, additionally include the capacity for the user to focus on a particular area of a city (such as main Los Angeles).."