These emails are from the day we got Viaweb working. I think we demoed it to potential investors a few days later.
    From rtm@uun.org Sat Aug 12 13:49:39 1995
    To: pg@garage.uun.org
    Subject: score: 2

    I have clisp installed, and it has a (shell "...") command.

    The sink works now.

    From rtm@eecs.harvard.edu Sat Aug 12 16:26:39 1995
    To: pg@eecs.harvard.edu
    Subject: clisp

    It loads now. It's running (gen-site)... I think I'll get some coffee.

    From pg@das.harvard.edu Sat Aug 12 23:25:29 1995
    To: gino@webgen.com, jlw@webgen.com
    Subject: it works!
    Cc: pg, rtm

    About an hour ago we got the generator working remotely.  That
    is, you can now run the generator at our site from Netscape,
    wherever you happen to be.

    --> If you were a catalog company, yesterday there were about five
        places that could generate a web catalog for you.  Now anyone
        with a modem and a copy of Netscape can do it.

    To use the program, all you have to do is go to a certain URL
    at www.webgen.com.  This page has a form you can type commands
    into to run the generator.  When it has finished, you can inspect
    your changed catalog by going to its URL.

    We now have to do a lot of polishing: the program is very slow
    and not especially user-friendly.  But it is a real, working system,
    and it already generates the best catalogs on the Web.

    We are thinking of having the service go online for real around
    the beginning of September.  Between now and then we might like
    to use you as a guinea-pig, Gino.  Actually, we should have
    Julian generate a catalog of his own, too.

    Yow!  -- pg