This is just an academic/curiosity question.

How much is possible with just a text editor like notepad? Assuming no additional plugins, just out the box.

Obviously you can build a website just fine, by saving your text files as .js and .html etc

What about executing a manual http GET request? I understand you probably can't do this off the bat. But could you use notepad to write a basic browser in C which would then allow you to write your own http requests?

Maybe the answer is no, because you need a C compiler? If that's the case can I write a compiler in notepad? How many layers down would I have to go?

To be clear, I know the above would not be practical at all. I'm just curious how deep down the rabbit hole you could theoretically go with just a vanilla text editor