See also this bit of Internet history: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815202656/http://world.std....
Potato-powered web server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3346741 - Dec 2011 (10 comments)
Spud, potato powered web server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=887160 - Oct 2009 (6 comments)