One of my daughters asked me: “What’s Craigslist?”
“Ooh,” I said. “Big question.”
Craigslist, I told her, was one of the big names to emerge online when things like ebay were new, and lots of people say that Craigslist triggered the beginning of the end of the newspaper industry.
Craigslist was set up by Craig Newark and was the first big site to post classified ads. Lists and lists of ads.
And lots of people say this was the beginning of the demise of newspapers because classified ads were their bread and butter.
Here’s how Craigslist started, according to Wiki:
