Craigslist
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Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008
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| Type of business | Private company |
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Type of site
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Classifieds, forums |
| Available in | English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese |
| Founded | 1995 (incorporated 1999) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, United States |
| Area served | 570 cities in 70 countries |
| Founder(s) | Craig Newmark |
| Key people | Jim Buckmaster (CEO) |
| Services | Web communications |
| Revenue |
 US$ 381 million (2015) |
| Employees | 30+ |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 91 (August 2016[update]) |
| Advertising | None |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1995 |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | Perl |
Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.
Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It became a web-based service in 1996 and expanded into other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. cities in 2000, and now covers 70 countries.
In March 2008, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese became the first non-English languages Craigslist supported. As of August 9, 2012, over 700 cities and areas in 70 countries have Craigslist sites. Some Craigslist sites cover large regions instead of individual metropolitan areas—for example, the U.S. states of Delaware and Wyoming, the Colorado Western Slope, the California Gold Country, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the locations with their own Craigslist sites.
Having observed people helping one another in friendly, social, and trusting communal ways on the Internet via the WELL, MindVox and Usenet, and feeling isolated as a relative newcomer to San Francisco, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark decided to create something similar for local events. In early 1995, he began an email distribution list to friends. Most of the early postings were submitted by Newmark and were notices of social events of interest to software and Internet developers living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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