Internet Archive’s Games playable within @Twitter – How to Embed MS-DOS Games in Twitter and kill Worker Productivity

If you live on Twitter like me, then you'd heave realized that since January 2015, Twitter has been on a roll!

They've rolled out the ability to send 30-second Videos and Group DM (Direct Messages), a boon for users of Tweetdeck as noted in my blog article entitled “Twitter rolls out Group DM and 30 Second Vines - How TweetDeck's Scheduled Tweets now with Group DM is addictive”.

Then in April 2015, they suddenly made it possible for trolls to contact you directly, albeit their joy will be short lived as you can block them quite easily as described in my blog article entitled “How to Send a DM to someone on @Twitter you are not following – Troll’s Joy is hanging by a Thread”.

But what about Games?

Looks like Twitter has you covered as now you can play classic arcade games from the Internet Archive's Software Library list of MS-DOS Games in-between your tweets as noted in “How to embed playable MS-DOS games in your tweets”, published April 29, 2015 by Claire Reilly, CNET News.

Good to note here that this is strictly a smartphone trend as noted in the article “Embedding classic MS-DOS games into tweets is now a thing”, published Thursday 30 April 2015 by Samuel Gibbs, The UK Guardian; it doesn’t seem to work on desktop versions of Twitter, or at least mot at the time of writing this article.

Ok, so now this attack on worker productivity is now trending, what is the Internet Archive and why have they decided to unleash this evil upon humanity?

Internet Archive’s 900 Arcade Games now playable within Twitter – Worker Productivity to Suffer

The Internet Archive is a huge repository of old websites that have been archived as part of creating a living history of the Internet that anyone can access and view.

Their Internet Archive's Software Library list of MS-DOS Games is a sizeable collection of some nine hundred (900) Arcade Video Games that are worth playing as noted in my blog article entitled “Internet Archive's 900 Classic Arcade Games – 30 years of Free Arcade Game with retro CTRL-ALT-SPACE and Arrow Keys Button Masher Action”.

Now the joy's coming to Twitter, at least for smartphone users, thanks to the quick eyes at Wired Magazine as noted in their article “Turns out you can embed Playable MS-Dos Games in your Tweets”, published 04.29.15 by Chris Kohler, Wired.

How to embed playable MS-DOS Games in Twitter from Internet Archive - Gaming Between the Tweets

To enable simply do the following:

1.      Go to the Internet Archive's Software Library: MS-DOS Games

2.      Click on the game you’d like to play

3.      Drag the URL into your Twitter feed

4.      Post the Tweet

The game becomes instantly playable in a manner no different from a GIF or a Vine, effectively killing worker productivity globally as Twitter now become a Retro Gamer's paradise as noted in the article “You can now play thousands of classic DOS games on Twitter. Goodbye, productivity”, published 30 Apr 2015 by Alexander J Martin, The Register.  

Explains why Twitter has now grown to 300 million active users, albeit it's not going to help their bottom line as noted in the article “Twitter reaches 300 million active users, investor expectations not met”, published April 29, 2015 By Jose Alvarez, DigitalTrends and “Twitter reaches 300 million active users, but the stock crashes after earnings leak early”, published April 28, 2015  By Chris Welch and Ben Popper, The Verge.

So, since this news dropped, how productive has your day been? For me, this is absolutely fabulous!

Here’s the link:

Internet Archive's Software Library list of MS-DOS Games

Internet Archive