Recently in another topic some discussion started about preserving some of the learning resources people used to get started with NES development. This conversation stemmed from the links to some of the nerdy nights sound tutorials going offline.
This led me to question: what if the nerdy nights tutorials went offline? What if nintendoage had a catastrophic database failure, or someone missed paying a bill? Or what if the downloads for the tutorials were lost?
I ended up writing a quick-and-dirty mirror site for the nerdy nights tutorials (including sound) to help mitigate this risk. It's plain html/js, and I offer a zip download of the entire site (with tutorial zips, etc) for offline use and/or to bring the site back up if my host goes down.
http://nerdy-nights.nes.science
Nerdy Nights is probably the most commonly-cited resource, but I think most of us learned from a lot of other places too. (Such as nesdoug's tutorials, topics here, various texts on the wiki, and some other sites I'm a little afraid may have already gone offline)
So, I'm wondering: should we do something to try to preserve all of this? Assuming the answer is yes... what resources do we want to preserve, and how do we want to preserve them? The backup website approach could work, but the answer might be as simple as making sure everything is on archive.org too. Let's discuss!
This led me to question: what if the nerdy nights tutorials went offline? What if nintendoage had a catastrophic database failure, or someone missed paying a bill? Or what if the downloads for the tutorials were lost?
I ended up writing a quick-and-dirty mirror site for the nerdy nights tutorials (including sound) to help mitigate this risk. It's plain html/js, and I offer a zip download of the entire site (with tutorial zips, etc) for offline use and/or to bring the site back up if my host goes down.
http://nerdy-nights.nes.science
Nerdy Nights is probably the most commonly-cited resource, but I think most of us learned from a lot of other places too. (Such as nesdoug's tutorials, topics here, various texts on the wiki, and some other sites I'm a little afraid may have already gone offline)
So, I'm wondering: should we do something to try to preserve all of this? Assuming the answer is yes... what resources do we want to preserve, and how do we want to preserve them? The backup website approach could work, but the answer might be as simple as making sure everything is on archive.org too. Let's discuss!