{"id":2438,"date":"2012-12-21T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2025-07-23T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:16:09","slug":"were-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/were-still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Still Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2441\" title=\"blog-mayan-no-end\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/blog-mayan-no-end1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/blog-mayan-no-end1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/blog-mayan-no-end1-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Well folks, we made it! It turns out we skirted another \u201c<a href=\"\/blog\/if-the-world-doesnt-end-december-21st\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">world-ending<\/a>\u201d event. Even though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gangnam Style<\/a> did hit 1,000,000,000 views on 12\/21\/2012, the world did not end as was <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/yqpYx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected<\/a>. (Sure, it wasn\u2019t a real prediction, but we got a kick out of it.)<\/p>\n<p>As a way of celebrating the continuance of this fine planet, we\u2019re releasing a 16% off offer code in honor of the 16% of people that were seriously worried about the world ending (we even wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/company\/news.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> about it). The offer code \u201clongcount\u201d will be active on Backblaze purchases through Sunday 12\/23\/2012 (11:59 p.m. PST).<\/p>\n<p>In order to use the code, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.backblaze.com\/buy.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy Page<\/a> on the Backblaze website and input \u201clongcount\u201d with no parenthesis as the offer code when making a purchase!<\/p>\n<p>Just a little way of getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baktun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">14<sup>th<\/sup> baktun<\/a> started off right!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Please note that you can only use offer codes on new accounts. If you already have a Backblaze account, you will need to create a new one to purchase licenses using the offer code! You can create a new account by signing in with a new email address and password!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well folks, we made it! It turns out we skirted another \u201cworld-ending\u201d event. Even though Gangnam Style did hit 1,000,000,000 views on 12\/21\/2012, the world did not end as was expected. (Sure, it wasn\u2019t a real prediction, but we got a kick out of it.) As a way of celebrating the continuance of this fine&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/were-still-here\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re Still Here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[131,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","category-backblaze-fun","category-offers","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Good News: The World Didn\u2019t End, and You Can Get a Backblaze Discount!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Well folks, we made it! 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