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Phone Networks

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, French scientists found

traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion

that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 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 in 2011, Charlie Hardcastle, a self-taught

amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found absolutely fuck all. Charlie

has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."




Just makes you proud to be British, don't it?

(As long as we don't have whinging EXPATS.)
 

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