Viaweb was a
web-based application that allowed users to build and
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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"),
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Trevor Blackwell. Graham claims Viaweb was the first
application service provider. Viaweb was also unusual for being partially written in the
Lisp programming language.
The software was originally called Webgen, but another company was using the same name, so the company renamed it to Viaweb, "because it worked ''via'' the ''
Web
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In 1998,
Yahoo! Inc. bought Viaweb for 455,000 shares of Yahoo!
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, valued at about $49 million, and renamed it Yahoo! Store.
Viaweb's example has been influential in
Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial culture, largely due to Graham's widely read essays and his subsequent career as a successful venture capitalist.
See also
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List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo!
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Discontinued Yahoo! services
Internet properties established in 1995
Web applications
Lisp (programming language) software
Yahoo! acquisitions
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