June's Web site of the Month, www.jldr.com, started as a way for John Loose, a manager for Sun Microsystems and a student working towards an MBA, to "practice his Web page designing skills." Back in the mid 1990s, when the Internet was still new, Loose designed Web sites for businesses for supplemental income. He used his grandmother's outhouse as the subject matter for the site, based upon his sister's recommendation. The reason his sister recommended using outhouses is explained on the site - it involves a raccoon and a guy with no pants.
Loose was having fun with this site and began to add to it by posting pictures of outhouses he had seen on his travels. The site began to grow and grow. People couldn't get enough. Both USA Today and Yahoo! magazine wrote about Loose's site. What is the fascination? This is the question that must be bouncing around inside people's heads as they spend upwards of an hour poking around this enormous site.