Cajun Wireless, We Had It First

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, British scientists
dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after headlines in the UK newspapers
read: "British 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 Advertiser", a Lafayette, Louisiana, newspaper, reported
the following: "After digging as deep as 30 meters in cane fields near New
Iberia , Gaston Boudreaux, a self taught archeologist, reported that he found
absolutely nothing. Gaston has, therefore, concluded that ...




300 years ago Cajuns were already using wireless."