"Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements web site with areas committed to work, real estate, offer for sale, things desired, solutions, community service, jobs, résumés, and also discussion forums.

Craig Newmark started the solution in 1995 as an e-mail circulation list to buddies, including neighborhood occasions in the San Francisco Bay Area. It came to be a web-based service in 1996 and also broadened right into other classified categories. It started broadening to various other U.S. cities in 2000, and also currently covers 70 nations.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, as well as Portuguese became the first non-English languages Craigslist supported. Since August 9, 2012, over 700 cities and also locations in 70 countries had Craigslist websites. Some Craigslist sites cover big areas instead of specific cities-- for example, the UNITED STATE states of Delaware as well as Wyoming, the Colorado Western Incline, the California Gold Country, as well as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the areas with their own Craigslist websites. Craigslist sites for some huge cities, such as Los Angeles, likewise include the capability for the individual to focus on a particular area of a city (such as central Los Angeles).."