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9) Write a graphical demo on the Vic20 or C64 in machine code

Nice list, but you'd be surprised how little work it takes to build a functional web server. I know I was when a couple of friends and I wrote one in Haskell on a rainy day. We were just scratching an intellectual itch of course, so there was plenty of stuff it didn't do, but it served up HTML files and images just fine.

I agree. Writing a web server is a trivial programming task. Want to do something networking that's hard? Write a TCP/IP stack: that was my first real job.

Same, wrote one for an assignment in a couple of hours, wasnt remotely a good idea to use it in the real world thou

I've already done 4 of them at the age of 17! (1,3,6,7)