February 2007
- February 12, 2007
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- Fans found that a new Nine Inch Nails tour T-shirt contained highlighted letters that spell out the words "I am trying to believe." It was discovered that iamtryingtobelieve.com was registered as a website, and soon several related websites were found in the IP range (Another Version of the Truth, Be the Hammer, 105th Airborne Crusaders, and Church of Plano), all describing a dystopian vision of the world fifteen years in the future.
- Consolidated Mail Systems found through reference on the Another Version of the Truth forums.
- February 14, 2007
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- During Nine Inch Nails' first ever concert in Lisbon, Portugal, a USB flash drive was found in a bathroom stall containing a high-quality MP3 of the track "My Violent Heart," which quickly circulated the internet. This was initially thought by many to be an accidental leak of the song, but further releases in a similar fashion confirmed these to be intentional "leaks" and as part of the overall alternate reality game. On the end of the MP3 was a few seconds of static, which, when analyzed under a spectrogram reveals an image of "The Presence." The same static is on the album at the end of Track #9, "The Warning."
- February 19, 2007
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- A USB drive was found at a concert in Barcelona, Spain, containing two audio files: the track "Me, I'm Not" and an MP3 of static. The mp3 of static, "2432.mp3," when analyzed through a spectrogram revealed the phone number 1-216-333-1810, which in turn revealed http://www.uswiretap.com/case_number_required/.
- February 22, 2007
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- A teaser trailer was released though the Year Zero website and featured a quick glimpse of a blue road sign that says "I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE" and a distorted glimpse of The Presence. Additionally, one frame in the teaser points to the url http://yearzero.nin.com/0024, which presented an image named "yearzero_cover.jpg", which was later confirmed to be the album cover.
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- Red fliers are handed out at a concert in Paris, France with the words "Art is Resistance," leading to http://artisresistance.com.
- February 25, 2007
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- A third USB drive was found at a concert in Manchester, England. It contained two files: the track "In This Twilight" and an image of the Hollywood Sign apparently demolished. The picture led fans to a website called http://www.hollywoodinmemoriam.org.
- February 26 and 27, 2007
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- Beside You in Time is released in Europe and worldwide, respectively, containing a reference to http://www.securebroadcastinformatics.com within the expiration-date lettering on the Blu-ray and HD DVD editions.
Read more about this topic: Campaign Timeline Of The Year Zero Alternate Reality Game
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