Internet invented by ancient Indians!
Netizens are mocking an Indian minister who claimed that the Internet and satellite were invented hundreds of thousands of years ago by ancient Indians.
Biplab Deb, 46, who is the chief minister of the north-eastern state of Tripura, had made the comments at a public function on Tuesday.
"Internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata. How could Sanjaya (the charioteer of King Dhritarashtra) give a detailed account and description to the blind king about the battle of Kurukshetra? It means Internet was there, the satellites and that technology was there in this country at that time," he said, according to Times of India.
Deb, who is from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said, since the era of the Mahabharata, India was top in technology but somehow in the middle, it got lost.
But his claim has not found many takers.
According to the BBC, "Tripura CM Biplap Deb" is trending on Twitter with many Indians mocking him.
Kshitij Nagar tweeted: "Well I hope they at least had better bandwidth than what present day ISPs offer."
Deb is not the first Indian minister to have claimed that many modern day science technologies were invented in ancient India. In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering of doctors and medical staff at a Mumbai hospital that cosmetic surgery existed in ancient India.
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