The Other Road Ahead

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"There is now another way to deliver software that will save users from becoming system administrators. Web-based applications are programs that run on Web servers and use Web pages as the user interface. For the average user this new kind of software will be easier, cheaper, more mobile, more reliable, and often more powerful than desktop software."

Paul Graham's company (Viaweb) became Yahoo Store after he sold it to Yahoo in 1998.

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