[nly]

It's strange how a piece of code any dev could, and likely would, have written in 1992 can now reach the HN front page.

Isn't it odd that this kind of minimalism is now considered novel?

(Not that I'm bashing the author. Doing this stuff was fun in the 90s and it's still fun now)

[zxcdw]

Remember that most of us are web devs. It's web stuff, it's very simple and minimalist, it's easy to look at it and go "yeah, cool".

Compare to someone writing a 3d software renderer, not so many people can relate to it, as they can to things related to web.