Brings to mind:

"Rapid Web Application Server (in Assembler)":

https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/

Discussed on hn a few times as I recall:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948749

(see also sshtalk):

https://2ton.com.au/sshtalk/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15829206