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Yes, around that time (circa 1999) there was the matchbox web server ar Stanford with much lower capabilities (as hardware): https://web.archive.org/web/199911

by jaclaz 4y ago

Yes, around that time (circa 1999) there was the matchbox web server ar Stanford with much lower capabilities (as hardware): https://web.archive.org/web/19991128033948/http://wearables.stanford.edu:80/hardware.html https://web.archive.org/web/19991128033948/http://wearables.... >The Matchbox Webserver, which is serving this and the other web pages to you, is a single-board AMD 486-SX computer with a 66 MHz CPU, 16 MB RAM, and 16 MB flash ROM, big enough to hold a useful amount of RedHat 5.2 Linux including the HTTP daemon that runs the web server.

squarefoot 4y ago
Thanks for posting this, I thought it was long gone and forgotten. That server at one time was kept live on the Internet, and I showed that back in the day during a talk to demonstrate Linux capabilities. The page however says it was created in 1999, while I seem to recall it was about one year before, but the server is that one without doubt: I could never forget that photo showing it side by side with the matchbox.
- jaclaz 4y ago
  Yes, first version was 1998, and was upgraded in 1999: https://aruntechgeek.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/worlds-smallest-webserver-matchbox-size-server/ https://aruntechgeek.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/worlds-smalles... AFAICR it stayed online several years. It is to be noted how the project belonged to the "wearable" laboratory/section. The related paper (it is a postcript inside a .gz archive) is still available: http://boole.stanford.edu/iswc.ps.gz http://boole.stanford.edu/iswc.ps.gz here it is in .pdf format: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.18.4077&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.18... In 2000 Sergei Brin used it in a talk as an example of what could be done with mobile devices: https://www.wired.com/2014/05/brin-mobile-2000/ https://www.wired.com/2014/05/brin-mobile-2000/
  - anthk 4y ago
    Old GV opened both fine (even the gzipped PS).
anthk 4y ago
There were micro Linux released on floppies such as basic Linux and mulinux.

by jaclaz 4y ago

squarefoot 4y ago

Thanks for posting this, I thought it was long gone and forgotten. That server at one time was kept live on the Internet, and I showed that back in the day during a talk to demonstrate Linux capabilities. The page however says it was created in 1999, while I seem to recall it was about one year before, but the server is that one without doubt: I could never forget that photo showing it side by side with the matchbox.

jaclaz 4y ago
Yes, first version was 1998, and was upgraded in 1999: https://aruntechgeek.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/worlds-smallest-webserver-matchbox-size-server/ https://aruntechgeek.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/worlds-smalles... AFAICR it stayed online several years. It is to be noted how the project belonged to the "wearable" laboratory/section. The related paper (it is a postcript inside a .gz archive) is still available: http://boole.stanford.edu/iswc.ps.gz http://boole.stanford.edu/iswc.ps.gz here it is in .pdf format: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.18.4077&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.18... In 2000 Sergei Brin used it in a talk as an example of what could be done with mobile devices: https://www.wired.com/2014/05/brin-mobile-2000/ https://www.wired.com/2014/05/brin-mobile-2000/
- anthk 4y ago
  Old GV opened both fine (even the gzipped PS).

anthk 4y ago

There were micro Linux released on floppies such as basic Linux and mulinux.