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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network more than one hundred years ago.Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed an archaeologist in California dug to a depth of 20 feet. Shortly afterwards headlines in the LA Times read: ‘California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire, and have concluded that their ancestors had an advanced high-tech communications network 100 years earlier than the New Yorkers.’One week later, theTimes Picayune, a local newspaper in New Orleans, reported the following: ‘After digging as deep as 30 feet in his sugar cane field near Bayou Black, in Houma, LA. Boudreaux, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Boudreaux has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Louisiana had already gone wireless.

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