"Craigslist (stylised as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements site with areas devoted to tasks, housing, available for sale, things wanted, solutions, community service, gigs, résumés, and conversation forums.

Craig Newmark started the service in 1995 as an e-mail distribution checklist to friends, including regional occasions 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 various other U.S. cities in 2000, as well as currently covers 70 nations.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese came to be the very first non-English languages Craigslist supported. Since August 9, 2012, over 700 cities as well as locations in 70 nations had Craigslist websites. Some Craigslist websites cover big regions instead of individual cities-- for instance, the UNITED STATE states of Delaware and Wyoming, the Colorado Western Incline, the California Gold Nation, and also the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are amongst the locations with their very own Craigslist websites. Craigslist websites for some large cities, such as Los Angeles, also consist of the capability for the user to focus on a certain location of a city (such as main Los Angeles).."