In what month and year did LinkedIn launch a mobile version of its site?

LinkedIn launched a mobile version of its site in February 2008. The early mobile site made LinkedIn’s professional-networking service accessible from phones before the company’s later generations of native mobile apps.

The launch came less than five years after LinkedIn began operating in 2003. The mobile version was initially available in six languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. This multilingual release reflected LinkedIn’s growing international audience and its focus on professional networking beyond the desktop browser.

A common mix-up is confusing the mobile website with later mobile products. LinkedIn acquired CardMunch, a business-card scanning app, in January 2011, and introduced other phone-focused services afterward. Those later developments did not change the original launch date of the mobile version of LinkedIn’s site: February 2008.