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[Narelle]

I seem to remember an older version of this with:

italians and old copper, therefore romans using telephones
egyptians and broken glass, therefore ancient egyptians using fire optics, and

Aussies and wireless Aborigines....

but my memory (as I discovered in a recent discussion about BGP
communities) is shot...


Narelle


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Mick wrote:
> After having dug to a depth of 3 metres last year, Melbourne 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 Victorians, in the weeks that followed, a Sydney
> archaeologist dug to a depth of 7 metres, and shortly after, a story
> published in the Sydney Morning Herald read:
>
> "New South Wales archaeologists, finding traces of  130-year-old copper
> wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech
> communications network 30 years earlier than the Victorians".
>
> One week later, the Courier Mail in Brisbane , Queensland , reported the
> following:
>
> "After digging as deep as 15 metres in his pasture near Beenleigh ,
> Queensland , John Brown, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found
> absolutely f##k all.  John has therefore concluded that 130 years ago,
> Queensland had already gone wireless."



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