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Ancient Telecom
TooBig
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Subject: Ancient Telecom
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>> After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year outside of New York
>> City, New York scientists found traces of copper cable dating back 100
>> years.
>>
>>
>> They 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, a Los
>> Angeles, California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet somewhere
>> just outside Oceanside.
>>
>>
>> Shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: "California
>> archaeologists, after a finding of 200 year old copper cable, have
>> concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech
>> communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers."
>>
>> One week later, a local newspaper in Okla. City reported the following:
>> "After digging down about 30 feet deep in his pasture near the community
>> of Yukon, Okla., Bubba, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he
>> found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years
>> ago, Oklahoma had already gone wireless."
>>
>> Just makes a person proud to be an Okie.
>>
>>>>
>>
>> After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year outside of New York
>> City, New York scientists found traces of copper cable dating back 100
>> years.
>>
>>
>> They 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, a Los
>> Angeles, California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet somewhere
>> just outside Oceanside.
>>
>>
>> Shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: "California
>> archaeologists, after a finding of 200 year old copper cable, have
>> concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech
>> communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers."
>>
>> One week later, a local newspaper in Okla. City reported the following:
>> "After digging down about 30 feet deep in his pasture near the community
>> of Yukon, Okla., Bubba, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he
>> found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years
>> ago, Oklahoma had already gone wireless."
>>
>> Just makes a person proud to be an Okie.
>>
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