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Aug 7, 2022 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
I was on the IMDb page for an upcoming Ranbir Kapoor movie Animal. In the cast details, I found a name I didn’t recognize.

Finding out about this guy led me to the world of how young Indian men from small towns are gaming the system to manufacture their fake online clout 👇 So who is this guy? I had not heard of him before and he is named in the “Top cast” category for this movie, alongside Ranbir Kapoor.

I checked his IMDb page and this is what his bio and filmography look like.
Jul 21, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
#TIL that Shammi Kapoor was one of the first users of the Internet in India

He was the founder & chairman of the Internet Users Club of India. I can't wrap my head around how someone like Shammi Kapoor was in the thick of the internet movement in India?

I did some digging 👇 I found this dead website mafatlal.co.in on the Internet Archive. It was one of the first domains with a ".co.in" TLD.

It was owned by this guy: Miheer Mafatlal and it hosted the IUCI webpage. As tech people stereotypes go, he sure does look the part.