Back in 2002 I lived in Ocean Beach, San Francisco and worked at Haight and Cole. I went by the Craigslist building a few times and it didn’t look like much. I used Craigslist back then and when I moved to San Diego, I was happy to see that he had put up a San Diego section.

Now Craigslist is known world wide as a place to find just about anything, a business directory, a free alternative to ebay, a place to meet people. Craig Newmark is one of the few who will be likely to have a permanent place on the web for generations to come, so I am happy to have had the opportunity to conduct an interview with the man who came out of nowhere to become one of the first to connect the dots of the web:

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