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Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator

The Social Radars

CHAPTER

How to Control a Generator on a Web Server

CNN's John Sutter met Robert Morris when he went to Harvard for grad school. In the mid 80s, Vueb was making web pages and as you were making them, they looked like the pages that were actually going to get generated. "We thought if we could just figure out a way to control this thing on the server by clicking on links, we never have to write Windows software," Morris said.

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