<story><title>Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (1998)</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-Viaweb-for-49-million/2100-1001_3-212001.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Arjuna</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&quot;A few hours before the Yahoo acquisition was announced in June 1998 I took a snapshot of Viaweb&apos;s site&lt;/i&gt; [1]. &lt;i&gt;I thought it might be interesting to look at one day.&quot;&lt;/i&gt; [2]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://ycombinator.com/viaweb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ycombinator.com/viaweb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (1998)</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-Viaweb-for-49-million/2100-1001_3-212001.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ig1</author><text>With all the talk about Yahoo acquisitions I thought it might be a good time to remind everyone that back in 1998 Yahoo acquired a three-year old Viaweb.&lt;p&gt;With that exit money the Viaweb founders (Paul Graham, Robert Morris, and Trevor Blackwell) went on to start a rather well known seed accelerator and a popular hacker news aggregation site.</text></comment>