And…I've taken way too long to update – again. Sorry peoples!
This joke came round in an email several months back. Enjoy!
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We all know that Tortall and the countries near it are very technologically advanced, right guys? Advanced enough, even, to be able to be compared with 21st century Earth…don't look at me like that, just use your imaginations!
Ahem…anyway.
A group of archaeologists in Tortall dug to a depth of ten feet last year, and found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years. They then came to the conclusion that 100 years ago, their ancestors already had a telephone network.
When word of this reached Scanra, archaeologists dug deep, twenty feet deep, in fact, to find traces of copper wire dating back 200 years. They spread the news that 200 years ago, Scanra already had a telephone network.
Not to be outdone by its two rivals, archaeologists in Carthak dug thirty feet deep, only to report that they had found absolutely nothing. They then concluded that 300 years ago, Carthak had already gone wireless.