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?AFTER digging to a depth of 10 yards last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire 100 years old. This showed their ancestors already had a phone network more than a century ago.
?NOT to be outdone by New Yorkers, California scientists dug down 20 yards in their state. A Los Angeles Times headline announced: ?California archaeologists find 200-year-old copper wire ? sign of an advanced high-tech network 100 years before New York.?
?A WEEK later, the Ames Tribune in Iowa reported: ?After digging 300 yards down in cornfields near here, self-taught archaeologist Ole Johnson reports finding nothing. Johnson concludes that 300 years ago, Iowa had already gone wireless.??
?NOT to be outdone by New Yorkers, California scientists dug down 20 yards in their state. A Los Angeles Times headline announced: ?California archaeologists find 200-year-old copper wire ? sign of an advanced high-tech network 100 years before New York.?
?A WEEK later, the Ames Tribune in Iowa reported: ?After digging 300 yards down in cornfields near here, self-taught archaeologist Ole Johnson reports finding nothing. Johnson concludes that 300 years ago, Iowa had already gone wireless.??