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Ancient Web: Staggering Beauty Is One Worm and One Bad Idea

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.

Ancient Web: WebNeko Still Lets a Tiny Cat Chase Your Mouse

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.

Ancient Web: TAAG Kept AOL Macro-Shop and FIGlet Fonts Alive

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.

Ancient Web: The Website Obesity Crisis Was Warning Us in 2015

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.