Saturday, February 6, 2010

World's smallest web server

Stanford Professor Vaughan Pratt creates the world's smallest web server in February 1999. Using off-the-shelf components, Pratt squeezes the hardware and software needed to operate a website into a package about the size of a box of matches. Pratt puts the tiny server online and news spreads rapidly. In the following five days, the little web server gets 78,000 hits.
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