Mostly because good names are hard to come by, and WebPutty (if you unstick your brain from PuTTY) is a pretty decent name. We would have loved to incorporate

Mostly because good names are hard to come by, and WebPutty (if you unstick your brain from PuTTY) is a pretty decent name. We would have loved to incorporate transmogrifier into the name, but that's hard to type and spell.