diff --git a/website/blog/2023-2-13-zune.md b/website/blog/2023-2-13-zune.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..67477a5e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/blog/2023-2-13-zune.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +slug: zune +title: "Corso is giving away a 30GB Zune!" +description: "I swear to god this is not a joke" +authors: nica +tags: [corso, retro, backups, zune] +date: 2023-2-13 +image: ./images/zune.png +--- + +![image of a Microsoft Zune](./images/zune.png) + +The Corso team is all about making sure that your data never goes away. +We've worked hard making the industry's only free and open-source tool for backing up Microsoft 365 data. +And that's why we're not letting anything from Microsoft die, certainly not 2006's best personal media player, the Zune. + +Ummm… look, this all made sense when I bought the Zune and found someone to refurbish it. Just play along with me here, okay? + + + +
+ +![A gif from the show 30 Rock with a character insisting 'beepers are about to make a big comeback, technology is cyclical'](./images/cyclical.gif) + +
+ +## A technology whose time has come + +In many ways, the Zune was ahead of its time. It could stream music over WiFi, and share your own media with other +Zunes on the local network. + +It was also, to the best of my knowledge, the first personal media player to come in brown. This Zune isn't brown, it's black, +but they did make brown ones. + + +
+ +![image of a Microsoft Zune By BulbousSum - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=120341960](./images/brown_zune.jpeg) + +
+ +*Look at that, brown. What a time to be alive.* + +And not only can you load a Zune with MP3 or WMA files, but it's also got an FM radio. + +![image of a zune tuning in FM radio](./images/radio_zune.jpeg) +*FM radio, certainly nothing will replace that!* + +This is a good thing since you'll have to run Windows Vista or earlier to load any media files onto the actual player. + +## All right Nica, I can't possibly get more excited, how can I win this prize? + +It will take you about 15 minutes (or less!). Just: + +* [Give Corso a try](https://corsobackup.io/docs/quickstart/) +* Fill out the [Corso feedback form](https://forms.microsoft.com/r/mRVNKqeKDp) + +That's it! If you do that I will hold a drawing in a few weeks, and send the lucky winner the working Zune that +I have on my desk at this moment. diff --git a/website/blog/images/brown_zune.jpeg b/website/blog/images/brown_zune.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1652c7798 Binary files /dev/null and b/website/blog/images/brown_zune.jpeg differ diff --git a/website/blog/images/cyclical.gif b/website/blog/images/cyclical.gif new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5de5b1c7f Binary files /dev/null and b/website/blog/images/cyclical.gif differ diff --git a/website/blog/images/radio_zune.jpeg b/website/blog/images/radio_zune.jpeg new file mode 100644 index 000000000..35e0d076e Binary files /dev/null and b/website/blog/images/radio_zune.jpeg differ diff --git a/website/blog/images/zune.png b/website/blog/images/zune.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aa4ee20de Binary files /dev/null and b/website/blog/images/zune.png differ diff --git a/website/styles/Vocab/Base/accept.txt b/website/styles/Vocab/Base/accept.txt index 8831b2ca6..04495804a 100644 --- a/website/styles/Vocab/Base/accept.txt +++ b/website/styles/Vocab/Base/accept.txt @@ -39,4 +39,7 @@ stdout stderr backoff Greenlake -subfolder \ No newline at end of file +subfolder +[zZ]une +Nica +gif \ No newline at end of file