"Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements website with areas dedicated to tasks, 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 circulation checklist to friends, including local events in the San Francisco Bay Location. It ended up being an online service in 1996 and increased into other classified classifications. It began broadening to various other U.S. cities in 2000, and also now covers 70 countries.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese came to be the initial non-English languages Craigslist sustained. As of August 9, 2012, over 700 cities and also areas in 70 nations had Craigslist sites. Some Craigslist sites cover large regions rather than individual metropolitan areas-- as an example, the U.S. states of Delaware as well as Wyoming, the Colorado Western Incline, the California Gold Country, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the locations with their very own Craigslist sites. Craigslist sites for some huge cities, such as Los Angeles, likewise consist of the capability for the user to concentrate on a details area of a city (such as main Los Angeles).."