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The official subsection of the [[nin.com]] website pertaining to ''[[Year Zero]]'' and its accompanying ARG.
==Content==
When the website went live, it contained a completely different image than the one displayed now, there was a vertical list of zeros. Over time the length of this list changed frequently, along with the number of zeros in each entry. This was the first indication that something strange was happening in regards to ''Year Zero''.
Eventually, the listing stopped changing and sixteen entries were left. Over the next week or so, three titles were revealed, one at a time: "[[The Beginning of the End]]", "[[God Given]]" and "[[Vessel]]". By this point, fans were already wildly speculating what would happen next.
On February 12, 2007, [[ETS]] user [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=6668 ianmatthews] posted a track list that he found from Soulseek. [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?p=810006] Soon after, the remaining thirteen titles were revealed on yearzero.nin.com. It is not known whether or not this was intentional or if it was simply a reaction to the track listing leak.
[[User:Malechite|Malechite]] put together Yzminisiteanimation.gif[http://bloggernista.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/yzminisiteanimation.gif] an animation of the image unfolding using the images saved at Symphony of Noise.
Static appeared on "[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]", shortly thereafter the "Survivalism" [[Nine Inch Nails music videos|music video]] was leaked and then released on yearzero.nin.com.
The image for the video appeared and then changed to [https://web.archive.org/web/20070701211404im_/http://yearzero.nin.com/survivalism/coverhalo23_cover.html jpg halo23_cover.jpg] and a PDF of the lyrics to the song appeared.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070409102555/http://yearzero.nin.com/survivalism/survivalism.pdf]
Next to appear were links to a trailer.
[[Image:Yzplayer.jpg|thumb|The flash player on yearzero.nin.com.]]
Less than a day after the original ''Year Zero'' promo leak occurred, yearzero.nin.com was updated on April 4, 2007, with a ''listen to year zero'' link that launched a [http://yearzero.nin-thespiral.com/FLJoi4gjw2f/player.html flash player] streaming the entire album. ([http://www.portraitofdecay.com/yearzero.nin.com/index-be.html yearzero.nin.com] archived on 2007.04.04 with working flash player.)
'''fuzz.flv'''
When listening to the album in this player, occasionally the image would flicker and become fuzzy for a few seconds before returning to normal. [[User:Disorganized|Disorganized]] decompiled the flash file and found a file called fuzz.flv containing the various flickering images. So far, one image of a silhouetted figure standing has been found. It appears to look similar to the image of [[Trent Reznor]] on the ''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'' DVD cover. It is also present in the Temporary Internet Files Folder but resembles an a zoomed -in appearance of 'The Presence' from the ''Year Zero'' trailer.
Upon further tinkering with the fuzz.flv image, several other images were found. Two of which occured occurred on the black bar banner occurring at the beginning and end of the short video file. They both appeared to have lettering and/or a phrase written through the middle of the bar. Also a blue clip of the file showcased a darker human like figure, also could be interpreted as 'The Presence'.
'''Mr. Brightside'''
===Multitrack Files===
Multitrack copies of the songs "Survivalism", "The Beginning Of The End", "Vessel", "Me, I'm Not", "[[Capital G (song)|Capital G]]", "God Given", and "My Violent Heart" were added to the page in [http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ Garageband] GarageBand format, with links to torrents with the songs in raw files to be used in other applications so that fans could remix them.
===AIR Flag===
An image of an AIR flag was added to the bottom of the page and linked to [[Art_Is_ResistanceArt Is Resistance]], then a resources link was added.
===Wallpapers===
===Resources Link===
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080309040420/http://yearzero.nin.com/resources/index.html http://yearzero.nin.com/resources/index.html]
Parent Page: [[Yearzero.nin.com]]
Number: There is no known number for this page
The following link was found, but was not linked from the main page:
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071204180103/http://yearzero.nin.com/img/86.html albumcover.jpg]. It appears to be the same as the image found at [https://web.archive.org/web/20071107030709/http://yearzero.nin.com/0024/ http://yearzero.nin.com/0024/].
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