I think that would defeat the point - one of the items on his site "feature" list says :

Xitami web server, because it's the only one that does no caching at all, so the website is always served fresh from the floppy.

So I think it's more about proving what you can do with old software/hardware when you put your mind to it...

If you wanted to prove that, wouldn't you want to make it scale to handle HN traffic. I'm sure it would be possible.

That would remove the fun wouldn't it? I want to believe there is that crunching floppy sound when I press a link.

I've never used a floppy disk before so I wouldn't know that sound. I think making sure your site fits on it could be a challenge.

1.44 Mb is alot.

I used 56k modems to surf and a floppy would take like 1440/7 seconds to load at perfect conditions. Most pages loaded way faster than that.

edit: Nice could load the site now.

"Windows 3.11 for workgroups!

Xitami web server, because it's the only one that does no caching at all, so the website is always served fresh from the floppy."

Perfect stack.

Making sites fit would be pretty easy. Images will probably be your biggest piece of data.

Sony used to have a floppy disk based digital camera. I think it could take about 20 pictures per disk. Plus, I’m sure you could reduce that size.

You could store about 240,000 words, or about 2-3 novels.