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Newmark launched craigslist.org in 1996, where people could exchange information, mostly without charge. [12] It started as a newsletter about San Francisco events. [14] He operated it as a hobby while continuing to work as a software engineer until 1999 when he incorporated Craigslist as a private for-profit company. [15]
The Tampa Bay area is a major metropolitan area surrounding Tampa Bay on the Gulf Coast of Florida in the United States. It includes the main cities of Tampa , St. Petersburg , and Clearwater . It is the 17th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with a population of 3,175,275 as of the 2020 U.S. census .
Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
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Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist) is a board member of the Poynter Foundation and donated $1 million to it in 2015. [7] [8]In 2018, the Poynter Institute began a cooperation with the content recommendation network Revcontent, to stop misinformation and fake news in articles [9] [10] [11] supplying Revcontent with fact-checking provided by their International Fact-Checking Network. [12]
A 1748 British map had "B. del Spirito Santo" for Tampa Bay and "Carlos Bay" to the south. A Spanish map of 1757 renamed Tampa Bay as "San Fernando". As late as 1774, Bernard Romans called Tampa Bay "Bay of Espiritu Santo", with "Tampa Bay" restricted to the Northwest arm, what is now Old Tampa Bay, and the northeast arm named "Hillsborough Bay".
About 158.27 miles (254.71 km) of shoreline are on Tampa Bay. The county's unincorporated area is around 888 square miles (2,300 km 2), more than 84% of the total land area. Municipalities account for 163 square miles (420 km 2). The modern boundaries of the county place it midway along the west coast of Florida. [citation needed]
Tampa Bay formed approximately 6,000 years ago as a brackish drowned river valley type [4] estuary with a wide mouth connecting it to the Gulf of Mexico.Prior to that time, it was a large fresh water lake, possibly fed by the Floridan Aquifer through natural springs. [5]