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Robert Tappan Morris (the creator of this, the first internet 'worm') is the cofounder of ViaWeb and YCombinator with Paul Graham.

• cperciva 3y ago
  Just to be clear, YC was also co-founded by tlb and jl.
  • louthy 3y ago
    > tlb and jl That's clear to whom? People who already know?
    • cperciva 3y ago
      Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston.
      • smegsicle 3y ago
        all i know is, pg married a real bird
• mindcrime 3y ago
  He's even been known to post in HN, albeit very infrequently. At least, I'm assuming this is the rtm. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm
  • sillysaurusx 3y ago
    Not only post to HN, but debug HN. Those xxxx comments were testing whether HN was up.
• eclectic29 3y ago
  Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo and rebranded as Yahoo Stores. Happened to read his code when I was at Yahoo Stores. Lisp at its best! He wrote the templating engine running behind the UIs. It was used until 2008 when I left. Not sure if Yahoo Stores is still around.