NZs IT Advantage

After having dug to a depth of 3 metres last year, British scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the British, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 6 metres, and shortly after, a story published in the New York Times: "American archaeologists, finding traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the British".

One week later, the Kapi-mana news, reported the following: "After digging as deep as 10 metres in his backyard Rangi White a self-taught archaeologist from Porirua, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Rangi has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, New Zealand had already gone wireless."

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