That's what I thought too, until I wikipedia'd microdot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdot

Turns out microdot is a tiny format for communicating text/image which seems an apt name for this tiny webserver.

Probably what the LSD format was named after originally.

See also https://mikrodot.bandcamp.com/

It's actually a Phish reference[1]

1: https://phish.net/song/mikes-song/history

Yeah, I'm old enough to recall "Purple Microdot" back in the `70s.