The name Viaweb was also generated by a program, though back then (in 1995) practically all domains were still available and it was simply a matter of picking. We were originally called Webgen, but we had to switch because someone else had a site generator called that. So I wrote a program to display all the names consisting of "Web" plus some short English word.

One thing I learned was that most short words are negative or at least excessively blunt. Webpig, Webzit, Webfat, Webdog, etc. But one name the program generated was Webvia. That wasn't so great but if you switched the words it became a reference to the fact that our software worked over the web.