Violence and gang-warfare in Cybercafes. Whatever next?

What a difference a year makes. According to this morning’s Financial Times, the John Lewis Partnership is to close Buy.com, the internet business it bought last year, following strong Christmas trading on its own website. The retail group hopes most of Buy.com’s 200,000 customers will move to to Johnlewis.com, where it will set up a technology shop.

How the Wayback Machine works.

The Internet Archive made headlines back in November with the release of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a Web interface to the Archive’s five-year, 100-terabyte collection of Web pages. The archive is the result of the efforts of its director, Brewster Kahle, to capture the ephemeral pages of the Web and store them in a publicly accessible library. In addition to the other millions of web pages you can find in the Wayback Machine, it has direct pointers to some of the pioneer sites from the early days of the Web, including the NCSA What’s New page, The Trojan Room Coffee Pot, and Feed magazine.