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, English
scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after, headlines in
the English newspapers read: “English 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 Scots.”

One week later, “The Kerryman,”
a southwest Irish newsletter, reported the following: “After digging as
deep as 30 meters in peat bog near Tralee, self-taught archaeologist
Paddy O’Droll reported that he found absolutely nothing. Paddy has
therefore concluded that 300 years ago Ireland had already gone
wireless.”