[1st-mile-nm] Network Archeology

[Richard Lowenberg]

 From the Santa Fe Bulletin Board's Facebook site:

WE MAY BE RURAL, BUT WE AIN'T HUMORLESS

After digging to a depth of 10 feet last year outside Buffalo, New York, 
scientists found traces of copper cable dating back 100 years. They came 
to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network 
more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a Los 
Angeles, California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet somewhere 
just outside Oceanside. Shortly afterward, a story in the LA Times read, 
"California archaeologists, reporting a finding of 200 year old copper 
cable, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced 
high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New 
Yorkers."

One week later, the local newspaper in Santa Fe, New Mexico reported, 
"After digging 30 feet deep in his pasture near the community of Santa 
Fe, Franky Lopez, a heck of an engineer and a self-taught archaeologist, 
reported that he found absolutely nothing. Franky has therefore 
concluded that 300 years ago, New Mexico had already gone wireless."
Just makes a person proud to be from New Mexico.



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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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