So here's a question: Why aren't students doing these things, in either high school or college, regardless of what's being taught in our institutions? I'm fairl

So here's a question: Why aren't students doing these things, in either high school or college, regardless of what's being taught in our institutions? I'm fairly certain we built a scientific calculator in pascal while I was still in high school and then did it again in college in C++ or maybe other languages. Building a simple http server 25+ years ago wasn't exactly novel, so today I would think it would be an appropriate high school level project that a motivated student could do on their own.