"Craigslist (stylised as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements website with areas committed to tasks, real estate, up for sale, items desired, services, social work, gigs, résumés, as well as conversation forums.

Craig Newmark began the solution in 1995 as an email circulation list to good friends, featuring neighborhood occasions in the San Francisco Bay Area. It became an online service in 1996 and increased into various other classified groups. It started increasing to various other UNITED STATE cities in 2000, as well as now covers 70 countries.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese ended up being the first non-English languages Craigslist supported. Since August 9, 2012, over 700 cities and locations in 70 countries had Craigslist websites. Some Craigslist websites cover large regions rather than specific metropolitan areas-- for example, the U.S. states of Delaware and Wyoming, the Colorado Western Incline, the California Gold Nation, and also the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the places with their very own Craigslist websites. Craigslist websites for some huge cities, such as Los Angeles, likewise consist of the capability for the individual to concentrate on a particular area of a city (such as central Los Angeles).."