"Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements site with areas devoted to jobs, housing, available for sale, products wanted, solutions, social work, gigs, résumés, as well as conversation online forums.

Craig Newmark started the solution in 1995 as an email distribution checklist to good friends, including regional events in the San Francisco Bay Location. It became a web-based service in 1996 as well as expanded right into other classified categories. It began increasing to various other U.S. cities in 2000, and now covers 70 countries.

In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, as well as Portuguese came to be the initial non-English languages Craigslist supported. Since August 9, 2012, over 700 cities and locations in 70 countries had Craigslist sites. Some Craigslist websites cover large regions rather than specific cities-- for example, the UNITED STATE states of Delaware and also Wyoming, the Colorado Western Slope, the California Gold Nation, and also the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are amongst the places with their own Craigslist sites. Craigslist sites for some large cities, such as Los Angeles, also include the capability for the customer to concentrate on a specific area of a city (such as main Los Angeles).."