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== Track Listing Discovery==[[Image:Yearzerodotnin feb25.jpg|thumb|View of front page - Feb 25, 2007]][[Image:yearzeronincom.jpg|thumb|Final front page view]]The official subsection of the [[nin.com]] website pertaining to ''[[Year Zero]]'' and its accompanying ARG.
Go to [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=20158 this thread] on ETS for discussion of this website==Content==When the website went live, it contained only a portion of completely different image than the image one displayed now, and instead of song titles, there was a vertical list of zeros. The 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]]''.
=== Track Listing ===Eventually, the listing stopped changing and 16 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 user /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 13 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.
The only real indication that original uploads are no longer available, but the background is linked to developments trailer has been preserved in high and low resolutions on [https://www.nindestruct.com/video.html#trailers-promos nindestruct.com] and on the ARG is that [https://vimeo.com/3523800 official NIN Vimeo]. [[Rob Sheridan]] also posted a section next 4K upscale of the trailer on his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOD-FOx-jQw YouTube channel]. The compression of the uploads may make locating the artifacts described below difficult to "My Violent Heart" was revealed shortly before the MP3 was leakeddiscover.
In the video, the camera quickly glances over a road sign which reads "[[I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE]]". A "glitch" later in the video briefly shows the text "/0024", which quickly led fans to discover the page <u>yearzero.nin.com/0024</u>. According to the file name, the image on that page was found to be the cover for the ''Year Zero'' album. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805082618/http://yearzero.nin.com/0024/]
The album art appeared on the page and eventually a link to a listen link.
=== Listen ===
[[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 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 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'''
[[User:Disorganized|Disorganized]] also found that, upon decompiling the flash file, the words "Mr. Brightside" appeared in the track listing. Speculation suggested that this could have possibly been the name of the scrapped bonus track for the Japan release of ''Year Zero''.
===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] 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_Resistance]], then a resources link was added.
===Wallpapers===
''Year Zero'' and themed wallpapers were made available to download in various sizes as zip files.
===Resources Link===
http://yearzero.nin.com/resources/index.html
Parent Page: [[Yearzero.nin.com]]
Number: There is no known number for this page
Background Text: There is no known [[Year_Zero_Banned_Media |Banned media]] for this page
'''Discovery'''
The link to the resources page eventually appeared on the Yearzero.nin.com page
'''Content'''
The page design contains two columns
#Press which is self-explanatory
#Experience which lists [[Open_Source_Resistance |Open Source Resistance]], [[ETS]], and—You guessed it—[[Main_Page |NINWiki]]!
===Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D===
A ''[[Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D]]'' section was added prior to its release and contains information regarding formats, extra wallpapers, and a link to [[remix.nin.com]].
=== Hidden Images ===
The page used an imagemap to conceal a great deal of hidden links which, when clicked on, displayed images presumably from the recording sessions for ''Year Zero''.
There were links to 11 images, shown below.
The following link was found, but was not linked from the main page:
[http://yearzero.nin.com/img/86.html albumcover.jpg]. It appears to be the same as the image found at
http://yearzero.nin.com/0024/.
<gallery>
Image:03.jpg
Image:07.jpg
Image:10.jpg
Image:12.jpg
Image:14.jpg
Image:19AR.jpg
Image:22.jpg
Image:25.jpg
Image:Alanmoulder.jpg
Image:31.jpg
Image:39.jpg
</gallery>
==External Links==
*[http://www.portraitofdecay.net/yearzero.nin.com/ yearzero.nin.com (Archived at Portrait of Decay)]
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