"Craigslist (stylised as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, real estate, available for sale, products wanted, services, social work, jobs, résumés, as well as discussion online forums.

Craig Newmark started the service in 1995 as an e-mail distribution checklist to friends, featuring regional occasions in the San Francisco Bay Area. It came to be a web-based solution in 1996 and broadened into other classified categories. It began increasing to other UNITED STATE cities in 2000, as well as now covers 70 nations.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese ended up being the initial non-English languages Craigslist sustained. As of August 9, 2012, over 700 cities and also locations in 70 countries had Craigslist sites. Some Craigslist websites cover big regions as opposed to private metropolitan areas-- as an example, the UNITED STATE states of Delaware and also Wyoming, the Colorado Western Incline, the California Gold Nation, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the places with their very own Craigslist websites. Craigslist websites for some large cities, such as Los Angeles, additionally consist of the capacity for the customer to concentrate on a specific area of a city (such as main Los Angeles).."