I've mentioned TVTropes before, but I'll do so again. This is the paragon of time consuming web design. It's a wiki about patterns (the tropes) in entertainment. Things like cliches, story conceits, common character types (both stereo- and arche- varieties), trauma inducing sights, nostalgia, general complaining, self-reference, and plot chasms (bigger than a hole). The content is not limited to the TV medium as the name might suggest but covers film, theater, anime, video games and even literature.
The other website, Pouet, is a great index of the productions from the demoscene, a subculture of computer engineers and mathematicians than create art using the limits of various computer platforms. The results can be quite amazing. Keep in mind both of those examples come from 64kb files.
You could fit that over fifteen times on a floppy disk.
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