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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Scottish 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 Scots, in the weeks that followed, an English
archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story
published in the Morning Herald read:
"English archaeologists, finding traces of 130-year-old copper wire,
have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech
communications network 30 years earlier than the Scots".
One week later, the Cork Observer reported
the following:
"After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture , Aidan O'Flaherty, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he
found absolutely **** all.
Aidan has therefore concluded that 130 years
ago, Ireland had already gone wireless."