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[[Image:AVOTT_index.jpg|thumb|Both views of the front page.]]
Number: [[Year_Zero_Numbers#24.10.08|24.10.8]]
==Discovery==
At the [[Nine Inch Nails]] concert in [[2007/02/12 Lisbon, Portugal|Lisbon, Portugal]] on February 12, 2007. a plain-looking USB flash drive was found in a bathroom stall. It was found to hold a single MP3 file with the title "[[My Violent Heart]]." In the ID3 tags of that file, a URL, http://anotherversionofthetruth.com, was found. It can also be noted that on the "[[Another Version Of The Truth (song)|Another Version Of The Truth]]" page of the ''[[Year Zero]]'' liner notes, the figures "HTTP://" can be made out through the over-typed effect of the text in the booklet, hinting at the website.
==Content==
On first glance, the website appears to be nothing more than a large graphic, with a simple, patriotic, (if somewhat propagandistic) American message, not unlike the kind frequently used by politicians, and it is labeled at the bottom as coming from the [[US Bureau of Morality]]. Clicking and dragging over the image begins to reveal "another version" of the graphic, with the cheerful image replaced by a dark and bleak revision of the farm scene, and the text replaced with pessimistic and satirical messages. Once the new image is revealed, clicking the large bold words "Another Version of the Truth" takes you to a [http://message board at anotherversionofthetruth.com/forum.htm message board] , in which citizens of this particular setting are discussing many things about society, mostly involving resistance to the oppressive authority in place.
===Forums===
Background Text: [[Year_Zero_Banned_Media#The Hobbit|"The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien]]
==== Art is Resistance ====
The [[Art Is Resistance]] website has a [http://link (anotherversionofthetruth.com/artist.htm link] ) to an archived thread, entitled "Artist Behind AIR Goes Missing". The thread mainly discusses the usefulness of art (as opposed to violence) as a tool for resistance.
In this thread one of the posters is named BanksyForDictator, which is a note-worthy allusion to the underground icon amongst stencil & graffiti artists worldwide. Art is an invaluable tool of the counter culture, & though many of his masterpieces are fun and light-hearted Banksy is a real world example of art's amazing power to transfer ideas and messages to those who would otherwise remain unaware. For more information on Banksy see [http://www.banksy.co.uk/ www.banksy.co.uk].
=== Revisionism ===
[[Image:Another_Version_of_the_Truth_revisionism.jpg|thumb|200px|Hidden page]]
Background Text: [[Year_Zero_Banned_Media#A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present|"A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present" by Howard Zinn]]
This page was found through the [http://yearzero.nin.com/survivalism/survivalism.pdf Survivalism lyrics pdf] posted on [[Yearzero.nin.com]]. Initially,it shows a page with a dated history of how America created a "new world order" in Year Zero. Similar to the splash screen of the AVT website, this is a propagandistic version, and there is hidden text which shows a contrasting, dissident view.
Clicking and dragging the left section of the page to the right, and the top section downward, until the two line up, one can reveal the alternate text. (It is also possible to open the flash file called [http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com/road.swf road.swf]). This new text shows how past, current and predicted future events lead to the world described in Year Zero.
===0 Pages===
Background Text: [[Year_Zero_Banned_Media#One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey]]
Found as a link in [[The Mailstrom|the Mailstrom]] Wreckage "Pain", a series of 0 pages have been discovered, each with a clue leading to the next.
# http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/play# http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/glossy # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/goldaward # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/hotshots # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/left # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/3168 # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/cameo # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/agoraphobia # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/baggage # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/tattoo # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/brass # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/radar # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/equation # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/merry # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/~ # http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/devil
The "merry" page links to http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/2699-012a-Sherer.htm
Every few pages there is another step in building a bomb out of a computer: