If Our Ancestors Were Told About The Internet?!?! #Shorts

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here's a thought experiment to illuminate your mornings imagine you could time travel we go back three four hundred years and we tell someone let's say one of your own ancestors that in the future there's going to be something called the internet it's going to have unlimited information an ocean of knowledge anything you could want to know will be on the they will say that's crazy first of all who is going to put all this information on there secondly that means these people that have this will be incredibly intelligent they will know

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everything and you say well not exactly they'll use it to post pictures of their lunch have a blessed day folks

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, July 10). If Our Ancestors Were Told About The Internet?!?!  #Shorts [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/so4pki53qvi/

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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{If Our Ancestors Were Told About The Internet?!?!  \#Shorts}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {7},
  date = {2021-07-10},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/so4pki53qvi/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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