Numbers in the Year Zero alternate reality game

This is a comprehensive list of the numbers of the Year Zero alternate reality game by Nine Inch Nails and 42 Entertainment. The Year Zero alternate reality game, and its accompanying concept album of the same name, criticizes the United States government's policies As of 2007, projecting a dystopian vision of its impact on the state of events in 2022. The game has been underway since roughly February 12, 2007 and is expected to continue for approximately eighteen months.

Every media released within the game has had a series of numbers hidden within it in the format of "24.x.y." The numbers appeared to be a form cataloging the media, much like the "HaLo" system of all official Nine Inch Nails releases, partly confirmed by the fact that the Year Zero album was given the halo number of 24. Upon the discovery of Exhibit Twenty Four, it was revealed that the numbers were an in-game form of cataloging an ongoing government surveillance and criminal investigation of "resistance" groups, specifically a single unnamed "[[Characters and organizations in the Year Zero alternate reality game#Minor characters|[CLASSIFIED] inmate]]." Below is a list of the numbers discovered and their source.

Numbers

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! Number ! Media ! Notes ! References |- |align="center"|24.1.1 |The Mailstrom | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.2.1 |Free Rebel Art | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.3.1 |1-216-333-1810 |Found in Morse code at the end of the recording. |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.3.2 |MP3s and USB drive |Found in the ID3 tag of My Violent Heart.mp3 as well as the name of a file on the USB drive that also contained the song "Me, I'm Not." Besides the file's name, "2432.mp3" also had 24.3.2 in its ID3 tag. |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.3.3 |U.S. Wiretap | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.4.1 |Hour of Arrival | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.4.2 |Art is Resistance kits |Found on Art is Resistance kits (the few that contained pre-paid cell phones), handed out on April 13, 2007 in Los Angeles. |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.5.1 |The Price of Treason | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.5.2 |Open Source Resistance | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.5.3 |e-mail |Contained within an e-mail from the Bureau of Morality which led to the discovery of The Price of Treason and Open Source Resistance. | |- |align="center"|24.6.1 |The Viability Index | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.7.1 |Exterminal | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.8.1 |Grace The Teacher | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.9.1 |redhorse_24_9_1.mov (QuickTime file) |Found on Red Horse Vector, as the name of a video file depicting the execution of American ambassador Jed Mather. |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.9.2 |Red Horse Vector | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.10.1 |nohurry.mp3 (MP3 file) |Found in Morse code of nohurry.mp3, found on Another Version of the Truth forums. |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.10.2 |Church of Plano website | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.10.3 |opalo.mp3 (MP3 file) |Found in Morse code of opalo.mp3, found onAnother Version of the Truthforums. |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.10.4 |Consolidated Mail Systems|Found in a warning code of a pop-up onConsolidated Mail Systems. | align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.10.5 |ballgameOver.mp3
(MP3 file) |Found in Morse code of ballgameOver.mp3, found onAnother Version of the Truthforums. |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.10.6 |105th Airborne Crusaders website | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.10.7 |Be the Hammer| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.10.8 |Another Version of the Truth| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.11.1 |One Country at a Time| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.11.2 |Art is Resistance meeting (QuickTime files) |Found in edited footage of Los Angeles, California Art is Resistance meeting (on tour bus), posted onOpen Source Resistance. |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.11.3 |Los Angeles mural | | |- |align="center"|24.12.2 |1-866-445-6580 | | |- |align="center"|24.13.1 |Art is Resistance|Found in warning code of a pop-up onArt is Resistance. | |- |align="center"|24.13.2 |Paris flyer |Found on a flyer handed out at a show in Paris, France on February 21, 2007. The code is represented by a series of lines on the side of the flyer: 24 horizontal lines, a vertical line, 13 horizontal lines, another vertical line, and finally 2 more horizontal lines, giving 24.13.2. | |- |align="center"|24.14.1 |Tour T-shirt |Found on a Nine Inch Nails tour t-shirt, the same t-shirt which led to the discovery ofI am Trying to Believeand began theYear Zerogame. | align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.14.2 |e-mail |Auto-reply e-mail from water@iamtryingtobelieve.com. The code is represented by a series of vertical lines: 24 vertical lines, "AUTO_RESPONSE," 14 vertical lines, a horizontal line, and finally 2 more vertical lines. Reading the horizontal lines as dots gives 24.14.2. | |- |align="center"|24.14.3 |I am Trying to Believe| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|25.15.1 |Tour T-shirt | | |- |align="center"|24.15.2 |1-310-295-1040 |Found in Morse code at the end of the recording found at phone number 1-310-295-1040. | |- |align="center"|24.16.1 |The Water Turned to Blood| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.16.2 |Judson Ogram Correctional Facility website | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.16.3 |The Water Turned to Blood(sub-page) | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.16.4 |"Survivalism" music video |Found in the bottom-right corner of some surveillance monitors. | |- |align="center"|24.17.1 |Hollywood in Memoriam| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.18.1 |Cedocore website | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.19.1 |e-mail |Auto-reply e-mail from Francisco@securebroadcastinformatics.com. Within the e-mail each paragraph begins with a series of ">" symbols, giving a sequence of 2, 4, 0, 1, 9, 0, and 1. Reading the zeros as dots gives 24.19.1. | |- |align="center"|24.19.2 |Solutions Backwards Initiative website sup-page | |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.20.1 |Operation Swamp 0000| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.20.2 |Operation Chip Sweep| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.20.3 |London mural | | |- |align="center"|24.20.4 |London flyer | | |- |align="center"|24.21.1 |Brian Tsunoda| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.22.1 |Mining for Life| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.23.1 |Exhibit Twenty Four| |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.24.1 |Exhibit Twenty Foursub-page ("Subversive Network #1") |A list of "Resistance members," labeled as 24.24.1.1 through 24.24.1.1557. The list is a directory of ACTIVE members of the Nine Inch Nails fan club "The Spiral." |align="center"| |- |align="center"|24.24.2 |Exhibit Twenty Foursub-page ("Subversive Network #2") |A list of "Resistance members," labeled as 24.24.2.1 through 24.24.2.3253. The list is a directory of active members of the Nine Inch Nails forumEchoing the Sound''. |align="center"| |}

Note: Many of the hidden numbers in the Year Zero websites can found by pressing Ctrl+A/Apple+A.

External links

• Official Year Zero page at NIN.com
• Exhibit Twenty Four – an in-game catalog of the numbers of the Year Zero alternate reality game