Viaweb is a web-based application that allows users to build and host their own online stores with little effort and technical expertise, directly from their own web browser. In Software engineering, a web application or webapp is an application that is accessed via Web browser over a network such as the Internet Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the Internet. A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text images videos music games and other information typically located on a Started in August 1995 by Paul Graham and Robert Morris, it is well-known as the first application service provider and for being written in the Lisp programming language. Paul Graham (born 1964 is a Programmer, Venture capitalist and Essayist, known for his work on Lisp. Robert Tappan Morris, also known as rtm, (born November 8 1965 is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Institute's department An application service provider (ASP is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network Lisp (or LISP) is a family of Computer Programming languages with a long history and a distinctive fully parenthesized syntax
According to Paul Graham, the software was originally called Webgen; another company was using the same name and they renamed it to Viaweb, "because it worked via the Web". The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
In 1998, Yahoo! Inc. bought Viaweb for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at about $45 million, and renamed it Yahoo! Store. Software for Fixed assets management and Stock control developed in 2004. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been It is currently still operational.
See also
References
- ^ http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html Viaweb's First Business Plan, Paul Graham
- ^ http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html Apr 2005, Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas, Paul Graham
- ^ http://paulgraham.com/avg.html Apr 2001, Beating the Averages, Paul Graham
- ^ http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release184.html June 1998, Yahoo To Acquire Viaweb, Yahoo! Inc. RTML is a proprietary Programming language used exclusively by Yahoo! 's Yahoo! Store and Yahoo! Site Web hosting services
External Links
- Archive.org Pre-Yahoo screenshots, via Archive. org
- http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/ Yahoo! Stores
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