After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last
year, New York scientists
found traces of copper wire dating back 100
years and came to the conclusion
that their ancestors already had a telephone
network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the
weeks that followed, California
scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and
shortly after, headlines in the
California newspapers read: "California
archaeologists have found traces of
200 year old copper wire and have concluded that
their ancestors already had
an advanced high-tech communications network a
hundred years earlier than
the New Yorkers."
One week later, "The Aitkin Age", a local
newspaper in Aitkin, Minnesota
reported the following: "After digging as deep
as 30 meters in peat fields
just north of Palisade, Ole Johnson, a self
taught archaeologist, reported
that he found absolutely nothing (he had help
digging from his buddy Sven).
Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago,
Minnesota had already gone
wireless.
