RosettaCodeData/Task/Hello-world-Web-server/00DESCRIPTION

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The browser is the new [[GUI]] !
;Task:
Serve our standard text &nbsp; <big><big><code>Goodbye, World!</code></big></big> &nbsp; to &nbsp; http://localhost:8080/ &nbsp; so that it can be viewed with a web browser.
The provided solution must start or implement a server that accepts multiple client connections and serves text as requested.
Note that starting a web browser or opening a new window with this URL
is not part of the task.
Additionally, it is permissible to serve the provided page as a plain text file (there is no requirement to serve properly formatted [[HTML]] here).
The browser will generally do the right thing with simple text like this.
<br><br>