Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cpldcpu 25 days ago
More than 25 years ago, there was a show off, of building the smallest web server:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000815063022/http://www-ccs.cs...

Someone with an ACE1101 microcontroller "won". I can't find the original articles, but there is also this:

https://conceptlab.com/fly/

Webserver on a fly...
2 comments
ultraboom 25 days ago
I did the ACE1101 version, and mailed a preprogrammed chip to the artist in Saskatoon. Archive.org has the original description:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020605032321/http://d116.com/a...

It was great fun bumming the code down; eliminating ping made room for bit-banged I2C and UDP uploading to an eeprom, still <1024 bytes.

link
cpldcpu 25 days ago
Wow, nice! It's an honor.

I guess nowadays one could use some of the 32bit WLCSCP microcontrollers to easily beat this.

link
userbinator 24 days ago
That MCU has an instruction set that looks very 6502-inspired.
link
bananaboy 25 days ago
Ahah I was just thinking about that tiny web server the other day and even submitted it here, but it didn't get any traction. Back then (and even now) I thought it was very impressive!
link