After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish 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 Scots, in the weeks that followed, British
scientists dug to a depth of 20-meters, and shortly after, headlines in
the UK newspapers read: "British archaeologists have found traces of
200-year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors had an
advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than
the Scots."

One week later, "The Nordic Klub,” a Minot, North Dakota newsletter
reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30-meters in corn
fields near Velva, Ole Johnson, a self taught archaeologist, reported
that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300
years ago North Dakota had already gone wireless."