The strangest hardware on which you can find a web server
The original text is something like a collection of links with minimal comment and a picture. I tried to supplement the article a little, so now it’s not really a translation, but rather an “extension” of the original. PS Forgive me, dear readers for a little humiliating hubs.
It feels like people have already started a web server based on everything that their hands just got to. Below is a list of several very unusual approaches to the choice of hardware for the server.
Need any comments? Apparently they are faced with the problem of rotting potatoes .
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The experiment is currently officially completed, as the author has rotted potatoes . Now Spud is simply the Most Energy Efficient Web Server in the World, which runs on a single AAA battery (which will power it for several more years). The voltage / current graphs are no longer updated and the server will not be accessible from the Internet until one day the author has a provider that allows it.
webACE claims to be the world's smallest web server , and, most likely, deserved. It is sewn into a tiny Fairchild ACE1101MT8 microcontroller.
A second project is confident that its server is the smallest, since it is based on the smallest microcontroller available (at that time). It contains 2 tiny web pages in the firmware and implements a special limited TCP / IP stack, which, however, is enough to load small pages. At the moment the server is shut down indefinitely. And by the way, who was shouting about “The Most Energy Efficient Web Server in the World”? I think this little one has a chance to fight.
View from the outside ...
... and inside
The home-assembled computer running Minix 2. The web server is currently closed, but you can connect to the computer via Telnet.
All is not true. My web server has opened, but I think it will not sustain the habraeffect =). As it is written on the author's website (yes, with a capital letter), he did not use the processor "off the shelf", but simply assembled it himself from more than 200 chips of TTL logic interconnected by thousands of wires in an individual braid. I did not try to connect with a telnet, but the author promises that you can play some classic games this way.
This computer has become a real "cult". The server uses Contiki - a mini-operating system with a web server. (Contiki was also ported to Apple II, 8-bit Atari, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, Nintendo Gameboy and other systems)
WWWpic2 is a server running on a PIC 16F84 microcontroller (a small, programmable chip).
By the link of the web server itself, I did not find it, but there all the information needed to repeat the experiment is located there. Maybe someone will repeat and tell us about it? =)
Good old Atari (I wonder why it seems to me that this is a feminine word? ) From 1979, with a web server written in Basic. Connected via serial port .
A large number of software is being developed for the PSP, including PSP HTTPD, a web server for the Sony portable console .
A small NAS solution for the home , to which you can also connect USB hard drives. People seem to use it for a host of other things, including a web server. Linux based on Apache or Lighttpd
Shiny ( nyashny? ) Web server , having on board Mac OS X and Apache
( Link leads nowhere. )
Apple's old handheld boasts NPDS, a web server made exclusively for Newton .
Nokia smartphones have the ability to run a small web server based on Python.
A small wireless instant messaging device that allows you to install Linux and mini httpd. Currently sitting on the kitchen water cooler .
The second link I have not opened.
Nice list, right? Although some of these projects have already died, it is really great to estimate how much time and effort have been invested in them simply from nothing to do.
UPD: kibergus tells you that the smallest web server is in the fly .
It feels like people have already started a web server based on everything that their hands just got to. Below is a list of several very unusual approaches to the choice of hardware for the server.
Spud: A web server powered by potato electricity
Need any comments? Apparently they are faced with the problem of rotting potatoes .
')
The experiment is currently officially completed, as the author has rotted potatoes . Now Spud is simply the Most Energy Efficient Web Server in the World, which runs on a single AAA battery (which will power it for several more years). The voltage / current graphs are no longer updated and the server will not be accessible from the Internet until one day the author has a provider that allows it.
webACE - The smallest server in the world
webACE claims to be the world's smallest web server , and, most likely, deserved. It is sewn into a tiny Fairchild ACE1101MT8 microcontroller.
A second project is confident that its server is the smallest, since it is based on the smallest microcontroller available (at that time). It contains 2 tiny web pages in the firmware and implements a special limited TCP / IP stack, which, however, is enough to load small pages. At the moment the server is shut down indefinitely. And by the way, who was shouting about “The Most Energy Efficient Web Server in the World”? I think this little one has a chance to fight.
Magic-1: Homemade mini-computer
View from the outside ...
... and inside
The home-assembled computer running Minix 2. The web server is currently closed, but you can connect to the computer via Telnet.
All is not true. My web server has opened, but I think it will not sustain the habraeffect =). As it is written on the author's website (yes, with a capital letter), he did not use the processor "off the shelf", but simply assembled it himself from more than 200 chips of TTL logic interconnected by thousands of wires in an individual braid. I did not try to connect with a telnet, but the author promises that you can play some classic games this way.
Commodore 64
This computer has become a real "cult". The server uses Contiki - a mini-operating system with a web server. (Contiki was also ported to Apple II, 8-bit Atari, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, Nintendo Gameboy and other systems)
Pic
WWWpic2 is a server running on a PIC 16F84 microcontroller (a small, programmable chip).
By the link of the web server itself, I did not find it, but there all the information needed to repeat the experiment is located there. Maybe someone will repeat and tell us about it? =)
Atari 800
Good old Atari (I wonder why it seems to me that this is a feminine word? ) From 1979, with a web server written in Basic. Connected via serial port .
PSP
A large number of software is being developed for the PSP, including PSP HTTPD, a web server for the Sony portable console .
NSLU2
A small NAS solution for the home , to which you can also connect USB hard drives. People seem to use it for a host of other things, including a web server. Linux based on Apache or Lighttpd
AppleTV
Shiny ( nyashny? ) Web server , having on board Mac OS X and Apache
( Link leads nowhere. )
Newton
Apple's old handheld boasts NPDS, a web server made exclusively for Newton .
Nokia S60
Nokia smartphones have the ability to run a small web server based on Python.
Zipit
A small wireless instant messaging device that allows you to install Linux and mini httpd. Currently sitting on the kitchen water cooler .
The second link I have not opened.
Nice list, right? Although some of these projects have already died, it is really great to estimate how much time and effort have been invested in them simply from nothing to do.
UPD: kibergus tells you that the smallest web server is in the fly .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/149928/
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