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The Nine Inch Nails Wiki began with four members of Echoing the Sound. Malechite, Tony, Merzbau, and heroicraptor, during the Year Zero ARG. With the help of User:Leviathant and The NIN Hotline, the site immediately had an influx of new users and contributors, and the rest is history.

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-'''The Nine Inch Nails Wiki''' began with four members of [[Echoing the Sound]]. Malechite, Tony, Merzbau, and heroicraptor were familiar with one another through the IRC channel '''#ets''', and they secretly convened in a small IRC channel on a small network in a small farmhouse in the hills of Ireland.
+'''The Nine Inch Nails Wiki''' began with four members of [[Echoing the Sound]]. Malechite, Tony, Merzbau, and heroicraptor, during the [[Year Zero ARG]]. With the help of [[User:Leviathant]] and [[The NIN Hotline]], the site immediately had an influx of new users and contributors, and the rest is history.
-Except it had nothing to do with Ireland.
-We tried to get as many people on board before the launch as we could. We contacted Leviathant and Drunkpoet of [[The NIN Hotline]], Meathead of [[The Meathead Perspective]], Greg of [[Echoing The Sound]], and a few other people. Greg and Drunkpoet helped a bit, and Meathead refused to talk about it with us, but Leviathant announced the launch on The NIN Hotline, giving a jump-start to the site.
-The shared DreamHost server was not able to cope with the initial onslaught of traffic:
- Hello, I'm writing to let you know that your domain ninwiki.com
- was getting too many hits and consequently kept crashing the shared
- apache service. I set a restriction on the domain. This is to bring
- down the load on your server, but still leave your site operational.
-The restriction slowed the site, but it still went on and on and on. On April 18th, one day after [[Year Zero]] was released, the site recieved 104,000 pageviews. This is believed to be second only to the launch of the Wiki, as we don't really have stats for the launch (oops!).
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