After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Irish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their recent ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago. Not to be outdone by the Irish in the weeks that followed, an English archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet and shortly after a newspaper story read:
"English archaeologists, finding traces of 130-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech telecommunications network 30 years earlier than the Irish". One week later the Echo reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near his house in the Rhondda, Dai Williams, a self-taught archaeologist reported that he found absolutely bugger all. Dai has therefore concluded that 130 years ago Wales had already gone wireless."Comments Off on Welsh do one better