Viaweb Explained

Viaweb
Collapsible:no
Collapsetext:Screenshot
Commercial:Yes
Type:E-commerce
Company Type:Subsidiary
Parent:Yahoo!
Area Served:United States
Launch Date:[1]
Current Status:Inactive

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. The company was started in July 1995 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris (using the pseudonym "John McArtyem"),[2] and Trevor Blackwell.[3] Graham claims Viaweb was the first application service provider.[4] Viaweb was also unusual for being partially written in the Lisp programming language.[5]

The software was originally called Webgen,[6] but another company was using the same name,[7] so the company renamed it to Viaweb, "because it worked via the Web".[8]

In 1998, Yahoo! Inc. bought Viaweb for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! capital stock, valued at about $49 million, and renamed it Yahoo! Store.[9] [10]

Viaweb's example has been influential in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial culture, largely due to Graham's widely read essays[11] and his subsequent career as a successful venture capitalist.[12]

See also

References

  1. Web site: Company . https://web.archive.org/web/19980131010142/http://www.viaweb.com/vw/com.html . 31 Jan 1998 . 5 Mar 2021 . viaweb.com . dead.
  2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/01/how-a-grad-student-trying-to-build-the-first-botnet-brought-the-internet-to-its-knees How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees
  3. Book: Livingston, Jessica . Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days . Apress . January 2007 . 978-1-59059-714-9 . 207–208 .
  4. Book: Livingston, Jessica. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. Apress. January 2007. 978-1-59059-714-9. 206.
  5. Web site: Beating the Averages. Paul Graham. paulgraham.com. April 2001 . 2016-02-19. Paul Graham (computer programmer).
  6. Web site: Viaweb's First Business Plan. Paul Graham. paulgraham.com. 1995-08-24. 2011-02-16. Paul Graham (computer programmer).
  7. Web site: Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas. Paul Graham . paulgraham.com . April 2005 . 2011-02-16 . Paul Graham (computer programmer).
  8. Web site: Beating the Averages. Paul Graham. paulgraham.com. April 2001. 2011-02-16. Paul Graham (computer programmer).
  9. Web site: Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million. Randy Weston. CNET News. 1998-06-09. 2011-02-16.
  10. Web site: Company news: Yahoo buying Viaweb, a web marketing software maker. New York Times. 1998-06-09. 2011-02-16.
  11. Web site: How to Make Wealth . Graham . Paul . May 2004 . 29 August 2018.
  12. Web site: The Disruptor In The Valley. Christopher Steiner. Forbes. 2010-10-20. 2011-02-16.

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