Irish Archaeologist 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 Kerrymen,' a southwest Irish newsletter, reported the following: 'After digging as deep as 30 meters in peat bog near Tralee, Paddy O'Droll, a self taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Paddy has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Ireland had already gone wireless.'
Nice find Toni. What's even funnier (or sadder depending on your point of view) is that broadband is not so widespread in Ireland. In the country it is notoriously difficult to have. My brother gets it wirelessly but that was a pain to set up. Oh well.
O so that's why I can't seem to get anything but dialup out here, shoulda guessed- the folks in much-more-rural Lake Limerick have it and I always wondered why!
