# What is this website? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 5, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-website/781499 "2017-03-05T22:41:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-website/781499/1 "2017-03-05T22:41:21Z")
I ran across [jodi.org](http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/) on TVTropes and it’s just weird. I got out of it as soon as it came up, but now I’m curious and also a big chicken: what is it? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-website/781499/2 "2017-03-05T22:49:51Z")
Well, most people won’t be particularly inclined to click on a website that you describe only as “just weird” without explanantion. But without actually going there, I found this: > **[Jodi (art collective)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_(art_collective))** > > Jodi, is a collective of two internet artists, Joan Heemskerk (born 1968 in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (born 1965 in Brussels, Belgium), created in 1994. They were some of the first artists to create Web art and later started to create software art and artistic computer game modification. Their most well-known art piece is their website wwwwwwwww.jodi.org, which is a landscape of intricate designs made in basic HTML. JODI is represented by Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam. > Joan ... …which suggests that it’s not malevolent, but art. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-website/781499/3 "2017-03-05T23:26:18Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Well, most people won’t be particularly inclined to click on a website that you describe only as “just weird” without explanation. Yes, that makes sense. Sorry, I should have been more descriptive. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-website/781499/4 "2017-03-06T00:16:38Z")
Just a hopefully helpful aside… In my job I often have to go to sites that I’m not sure are trustworthy. I could spin up a virtual machine to go visit the site, then kill the VM. But I’m really lazy. So I often go somewhere like [www.browserling.com](http://www.browserling.com), which lets me view the site from a VM sitting in somebody else’s data center. The service is intended for use by web developers who want to see how their site looks in other browsers and OSes. But it works just as well for taking a quick look at a skeevy site. You can surf for 2 or 3 minutes at a time without registering. There are also a number of sites that will take a screenshot of a single web page for free. Those can be handy too. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-website/781499/5 "2017-03-06T00:20:06Z")
Weird that such things exist, or need to exist…