"Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements web site with areas committed to tasks, real estate, to buy, items wanted, solutions, community service, jobs, résumés, and also discussion online forums.

Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring neighborhood events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It became an online service in 1996 and increased right into other classified groups. It started broadening to various other UNITED STATE cities in 2000, and also currently covers 70 nations.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese came to be the first non-English languages Craigslist sustained. Since August 9, 2012, over 700 cities as well as locations in 70 nations had Craigslist sites. Some Craigslist sites cover huge regions as opposed to private cities-- for instance, the U.S. states of Delaware as well as Wyoming, the Colorado Western Slope, the California Gold Country, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the areas with their own Craigslist websites. Craigslist websites for some large cities, such as Los Angeles, additionally include the capability for the individual to concentrate on a certain area of a city (such as main Los Angeles).."