It is one tenth the size of a Palm Pilot and dwarfed by a typical desktop computer, which is 3,000 times larger.
The matchbox-sized server was built from standard components by Professor Vaughan Pratt, a computer scientist at Stanford University, California.
"It's basically a powerful little computer and we could have set it up for a number of different uses," he said. "But, because most people think of servers as mysterious boxes, located in dark basements, I thought making it into a web server was particularly dramatic."
Computer clothes
The new Stanford web server is one of the first projects from a new Wearables Laboratory that Professor Pratt has started to develop computers that can be incorporated in clothing.
"Put this computer into your shirt pocket, hook it to a wireless modem, and you could carry it around with you," Professor Pratt says.
The tiny computer's vital statistics are:
6.9 x 4.3 x 0.6 cm in size
AMD 486-SX computer,
66 MHz CPU
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