SamiaAhmed-LookingOutwards-2
temporary.cc is a website that deletes itself as visitors visit the url.
When I first found out about this website over a year ago, I used to visit it with some frequency for several months. The original website itself was beautiful, as well as the subsequent versions of it, created as a single character was randomly removed from the html/css on each visit. Because this website is ever-changing, it invites its viewers to return over a long period of time to see how it has degenerated. Whenever I used to visit it I felt two feels – one of not-so-secret hope that my visit would be the one to “radically” change the website from the last time I viewed it, and another of greed – I felt bad every time I refreshed, because I shortening the magic, and robbing others of the experience of seeing the website disappear.
Overall, I think the website is fairly successful. It’s a beautiful degeneration. Of course, by now, the html is so mangled that it’s a non-readable mess of halves of divs and “s and >s that don’t do anything. And while that is certainly part of the process, I would hope that somewhere there is a complete record of the degeneration, because it’s current state does not reflect it’s previous beauty. Perhaps, however, that is the point of these things. If you missed out, you missed out, and this piece of the internet is not forever.