The Internet Archive rushes to preserve public Google+ posts ahead of the social network shutting down

We know that Google's beleaguered social network Google+ is finally shutting down on April 2nd. But all its content isn't necessarily going away. The Internet Archive and the ArchiveTeam are working on preserving public posts before these vanish into the void. What this archive won't include are deleted or private posts, as well as full-resolution media or all comments made on posts. But if you do have public content you wouldn't want the Internet Archive to preserve, there is a process to remove specific content, which you can check out here.

Source: Engadget

You can play classic MS-DOS games in tweets

Here’s a special treat on Twitter. If you paste URLs of the MS-DOS games Internet Archive has up into a tweet, you’ll be able to play it right from the tweet. You will have to view the embedded game on web version of Twitter. Hello time suck, we meet again. Enjoy!

Well, we can now embed playable Internet Archive games into tweets, so: https://t.co/sMZwcB5nAN

— Chris Kohler (@kobunheat) April 29, 2015

Source: Wired