French scientists after having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year found
traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion
that their ancestors had a telephone network more than 200 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the French: in the weeks that followed, American
archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 feet before finding traces of copper
wire. Shortly afterwards, they published an article in the New York Times
saying : "American archaeologists, having found traces of 250-year-old
copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced
high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the French."
A few weeks later, 'The British Archaeological Society of Northern
England' reported the following: "After digging down to a depth of 33 feet
in the Skipton area of North Yorkshire, Charlie Hardcastle, a self-taught
local amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found "absolutely bugger
all". Charlie has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had
already gone wireless."
Just makes you bloody proud to be British.
