It ’s human nature to want clamant satisfaction ‚ which is likely in part why the Internet is so popular . Not only is our access to data seemingly limitless , it ’s often instant , too . When it ’s not — if , say , our connective fall out to be ho-hum — we speedily originate critical of what constitutes being worth the wait . And yet , a newfangled website is proving that arbitrary exclusivity and long blood can lend even unknown destinations a certain cachet .
MostExclusiveWebsite.comlives up to its universal resource locator . It allows only one visitor at time , for 60 - secondment increment ; at the end of your minute , you ’re booted from the site . At the prison term of write this , there were more than 44,000 the great unwashed in practical line as ticket numeral # 168952 — someone by the name of " matheus " — was currently love whatever enigma lie beyond the perpetual 30 - second countdown clock .
The site was launched in March of this year by Justin Foley as a way of experimenting with the open germ WWW frameworkMeteor .
" The Internet is kind of design to be open and approachable , and when you put a land site up , you want as many people as possible to link up to it . So , what if I did something that was the antithesis of that ? " he told theDaily Dot .
At first , no one really take bill . Foley post it on Reddit’sr / Funny , but with delay fourth dimension hovering around a mere min , the stop of the experience was debatable . Recently , however , it find new life story on Reddit’sr / InternetIsBeautifulafter being place number one on a list of " 10 Completely Useless Websites " by blogJohnny lean . And now 782739 minutes ( and enumeration ) have collectively been spent waitress . The average exploiter spends 20 minute waiting on the site ( or , let ’s be honest , browsing other tab key without ticketed ledger entry ) ; the longest time lag meter Foley has listen of is six hours , which even he does n’t recommend .
" I ’m not sure anything on the Internet is worth six hours of waiting , " he gag .
What did that special drug user find after those six minute ? You could search around on the delay - spare net for pillager , but it ’s just not the same as taking a ticket and getting in line .
[ h / tDaily Dot ]
