There are many stories in the past of society using the wackiest things as web servers. I think it all started with the Palm Pilot (or perhaps it was the Newton?). folks realized that you don’t really need much overhead to serve up simple html pages (that don’t get much traffic). Look around and you’ll find a Mac SE web server and a Newton web server.

So it was somewhat inevitable that someone would try to hack the iPhone into a webserver. After all, with Mac OS X and wifi built in what more do you need? Well, it turns out you need a lot more




than OS X. Even though his Steveness keeps telling us by and by again that the iPhone is running OS X it isn’t running the full (or unlocked) OS. whether it were, all you would need to do to run a webserver is to go to yee old System Preferences and turn on Sharing to activate apache.

But Steve doesn’t want it to be that simple. So some awesome hackers have got it going. Who knows, possibly someday a portion of that site will be brought to you via the iPhone!

[Via Gizmodo]

Original post by Chris



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