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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]
In 1996, Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb and recruited Trevor Blackwell shortly after. They believed that Viaweb was the first application service provider. [13] 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.
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.
In this episode of The Social Radars, Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb. Before he invented the accelerator with Y Combinator, he invented the web app — in this episode, you’ll hear how it all happened.
Jan 5, 2024 · In 1996, Graham co-founded Viaweb, a pioneering step in online commerce, which was later sold to Yahoo! in 1998. His work on the Lisp programming language and insightful tech essays have been highly influential.
Paul Graham and his friend Robert Morris started Viaweb in 1995 to make software for building online stores. A few days into writing the first prototype, they had a crazy idea: why not have the software run on the server and let the user control it through their browser?
Robert Morris and I demoed the first version of Viaweb to investors in August 1995. At the time, as far as we knew, it was a new kind of software. But I don't want to be saying something that isn't true, so if anyone knows of any web-based applications before that, please drop me a line.
