George Michael Brower's 2012 Staggering Beauty reduces a website to one black creature, mouse movement, Paper.js animation, and an aggressively flashing payoff that should come with a photosensitivity warning.
WebNeko keeps the old Neko desktop-cat idea alive in JavaScript, complete with contributed skins, copy-and-paste embed code, Xanga instructions and a reminder that MySpace once blocked the fun.
Patrick Gillespie's Text to ASCII Art Generator began in 2007 as a JavaScript side project inspired by late-1990s AOL Macro Shop art and grew into a long-lived FIGlet and ANSI-font preservation tool.
Maciej Ceglowski's 2015 Website Obesity Crisis talk attacked page bloat with measurements, jokes and an argument that text pages should not outweigh Russian novels.