In 1999, J. David Blackstone, or, as he is known online, jdavidb, was taking CSE 4344 (Network Concepts) at UT Arlington. Those were the glory days of Sparc Solaris, and Blackstone wrote, for his college course, a C program called tinyhttpd. It is, essentially, a very short version of the immensely complex programs that seem run the world these days: web servers. Unlike the million-line behemoths (think Apache, nginx, et cetera), tinyhttpd is a HTTP 1.1 web server in 532 lines of well-comment...
