Skype is history...
Skype, hype and smiles...
From somewhere off the Internet or maybe from CNN...
After digging to a depth of 100 meters last year, Russian scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.
So, not to be outdone, in the weeks that followed, American scientists dug 200 meters and headlines in the US papers read: "US scientists have found traces of 2000 year old optical fibers, and have concluded that their ancestors already had advanced high-tech digital telephone 1000 years earlier than the Russians."
One week later, the Israeli newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 5000 meters, Israeli scientists have found absolutely nothing. They have concluded that 5000 years ago, their ancestors were already using wireless technology."
I'll bet Uri's ancestors were Skypers.
Can Gizmo beat this?
Comments
Swedish archelogists not to be out done climbed Everest and bored deep into the Glacier and began talking to their 10000 year old ancestors on Skype. Israeli, American and Russian scientists suggested they suffered from oxygen depravation, return to lower elevations and SIP something SIMPLE.
Later the Swedes conferred with the Brits and Estonians and concluded almost any story could be better told over Skype.
Posted by: Stuart | July 28, 2005 04:20 PM
:-)
Posted by: Rick | July 28, 2005 08:54 PM
Great post, Bill :)
Actually, my ancestors were more of enthusiastic socialists from the Kibbutz, who saw phones as a depraved bourgeois luxury.
Posted by: Uri L. | August 1, 2005 08:22 AM