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Viaweb was a web-based application that allowed users to build and host their own online stores with little technical expertise using a web browser. [1] The company was started in July 1995 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris (using the pseudonym "John McArtyem"), [2] and Trevor Blackwell. [3]
Feb 17, 2016 · Listen to Paul Graham, the cofounder of Y Combinator and Viaweb, share his insights on entrepreneurship, online shopping, and how he built and sold his first company. Learn from his stories, advice, and experiences in this podcast interview.
A few hours before the Yahoo acquisition was announced in June 1998 I took a snapshot of Viaweb's site. I thought it might be interesting to look at one day. The first thing one notices is is how tiny the pages are. Screens were a lot smaller in 1998.
Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, and investor. In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first software as a service company. Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo in 1998, where it became Yahoo Store.
They believed that Viaweb was the first application service provider. Graham received a patent for webapps based on his work at Viaweb. [14] Viaweb's software, written mostly in Common Lisp , allowed users to make their own Internet stores .
The hard part is not where you store the data, but what the software does. While we were doing Viaweb, we took a good deal of heat from pseudo-technical people like VCs and industry analysts for not using a database-- and for using cheap Intel boxes running FreeBSD as servers.
Viaweb was a software company that developed and sold online commerce solutions. It was acquired by Yahoo for $49 million in 1998, and its president Paul Graham later founded Y Combinator.