Metafire

"No, I found a different way to find the cities. When I did, I found the FTP and Gopher sites intact," replied Jill. Such data was never inspected by web crawlers -- it would have been too costly in many ways.

"All of them?" he asked incredulously.

"All. As far as they can be found from the Home Pages, and I mean by a human's evaluation of the Home Pages, no machine." Jill was referring to the Home Pages that a web crawler could record.

Jack liked being on this team, "OK, did we find out where the virtual cities are now?"

"Yes, and that's what makes me think." Jill looked over at the Major. "Sante Fe. At a location called 'Metafire dot com.' It's publicly accessible. The complete city webs are in the Metafire Museum. At least that's what the Metafire Home Page calls it. It's a huge repository. Pre-blast copies of Boston, Denver, Miami, Moscow, and Rome, Canton, Cairo, Nice, Manchester, Hiroshima, and New York City. The New York City web is enormous."

The Major was enjoying this, but he had a lot of work to do. "This is interesting. You don't have any real evidence except this circumstantial stuff, do you?"