Justin Foley, a web developer from Ohio, has designed a website that lets only one person in at a time, and only for 60 seconds. The world’s MostExclusiveWebsite allows varying levels of access based on a user’s Twitter followers. The more followers you have, the more pages you can view. Currently, over 2500 people are in line to get access to the website and most of them have no real idea of what lies beyond the entry line. Every 60 seconds someone gets admitted, and the line shuffles forward. We also tried our luck, took our ticket for the 60-second window, but even after waiting in line for 30 minutes couldn’t access it.
Roughly one in nine actually make it inside the website, with most leaving before their number is called. “It just sort of came to me. The Internet was designed to be open and accessible; what if I made a website that was the antithesis of one of the defining qualities of the Internet?” Foley told The Washington Post.
“I [like] the unbiased exclusive nature of the way the queue works, first come first serve and only one person in at a time. Although if President Obama called and asked for an exception, I’d certainly consider it,” he added.
Foley initially launched the frustrating website in March, but it didn’t become a hit immediately. After it was discovered by Johnny Webber, the brain behind Johnny Lists, the waiting line started to grow to the point where now it’s among the most popular useless websites on the Internet. Thereafter, the website turned up on Reddit’s front page, where so many tried to access it that the site went down. More than 400,000 people have tried to enter the site so far.
Business Insider managed to go behind every page of the website as it seems it is also the easiest site to hack. One of Business Insider’s tech-savvy readers was able to get in and find the pictures of all 10 doors. Reddit users suspect the website serves up random pictures of an Internet-famous animal. If you’re curious and want to see what the big mystery is, you’ll have to get in line.
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