[VoIP] Telephone History, or Smoke Signals ...

[Chad Perkins]

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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 UK 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 Daily Squidjigger,' a Newfoundland 
newspaper, reported the following:

'After digging as deep as 30 meters near Cornerbrook, Wilf 
Johnson, a self taught archaeologist, reported that he found 
absolutely nothing.


Wilf has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Newfoundland had 
already gone wireless.'




Also:
An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to 
report that her telephone failed to ring ... 
when her friends called - and that on the few occasions 
when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before 
the phone rang. The telephone repairman proceeded to the 
scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady.
He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, 
and dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring 
right away, but then the dog moaned loudly and the 
telephone began to ring.
Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman 
found:
*   The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground 
    wire via a steel chain and collar. 
*   The wire connection to the ground rod was loose. 
*   The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current 
    when the phone number was called. 
*   After a couple of such jolts, the dog would start 
    moaning and then urinate on himself and the ground. 
*   The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus 
    causing the phone to ring. 
Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by 
pissing and moaning.



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