posted 04-21-2008 12:15 PM                  

After having dug to a depth of 10 yards 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 yards, and shortly after, headlines in the
LA Times newspaper 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.'