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After having dug to a depth of 10 meters 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 meters, 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."  
 
One week later, "The Brandon Sun", a local newspaper in  
Manitoba reported the following:  
 
"After digging as deep as 30 meters in sagebrush fields near Brandon, Ole Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found  
absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago,  
Manitoba had already gone wireless.