Building a Web Server from Scratch (No, Actually)

The author built a web server entirely from scratch using NASM x86_64 assembly on Linux, with no frameworks or runtimes—just raw system calls to the kernel. Starting from boredom in a NoSQL class, they learned assembly in a week, first building an HTTP client (a minimal curl clone), then progressing to NASMServer, which powers their personal site. The article walks through the fundamentals: Linux's 'everything is a file' model and system calls as the sole I/O mechanism.