technology

When I was about six, I had a friend visiting from Miami that really liked a certain purple bracelet I had. On the day she was leaving, she asked me for it, and I wanted to give it to her, but I only had one of them. I thought I would be clever, keep mine, and make a duplicate for her...in my grandparent's copy machine. Much to my dismay that this huge machine only gave me a black and white picture of the purple bracelet. My friend wasn't impressed. Sadly, Xerox machines are not omnipotent. But I really thought it would work.

J Luna

I used 2 believe that because our computer was soo slow and from what my dad told me that the internet asked every site ru .(insert url here)! i still kinda think that 2 this day

kokykomputerkid

When i was little i saw my mom typing on the computer really fast. I thought she was just hitting letters. So one day i decided to do it and i broke the key board!

Nicole

I used to think that html stood for hotmail and shtml stood for shitmail

Anonymous

I believed that any time my family did anything requiring electricity or fuel - turn on the stove, answer the telephone, drive the car - it was processed and governed by a giant central computer somewhere with technicians running around and big flashing lights. I was never quite clear on whether they controlled things, or just monitored them, but I knew surely they were required to turn on the oven and the telephone and the car in the first place.

Appelonia

as a child i used to believe that inside a radio tower, there were many people in futuristic clothing dancing inside rooms that were covered with silver wallpaper. I guess that's why i am a designer.

Anon

my mom always told me that if i kept watching the microwave oven while it was going that i would mutate from the energy waves or something. only later did i not only realize that this probably could never happen but she had no clue what she was talking about.

im still afraid of the microwave though

Inuyasha is trés cool

sometimes, and this onlt started a little bit ago, i go into the computer room, turn on the computer then run like hell so it wont see who turned it on..i mean come on, everyones cranky when somebody wakes them up!!

Amanda

Ibelieved only computers could think.((i started at a too early age my mom says))

Gordy

When I was like 4 or 5 (don't remember exactly), I asked my dad why we had to turn off the computer after that "It is now safe to turn off your computer." thing appeared. He said it would blow up if we didn't do that. I was always careful to shut down the computer at the right time until I saw my dad just push the off button on the computer and nothing happened.

Rachel

When I was a kid I was scared of installing things because I thought you had to do it fast because it always shows like a wire with flamey sparks going around the Earth, so I thought if I didnt do it fast enoughm, the earth would burn up
(I stopped believing this when I was 8)

Damian

When my friend was younger, she thought that little people lived in her cd player and when she played cds the little people sang for her!!

Goonie

I remember thinking as a child, that by the time the year 2005 came, we would all be in flying cars and using hover boards! Man....was I wrong.

The way we're going, we'll be lucky if we see another 100 years!

Giddy MC

when i was a little kid (about 5), i thought there were little people in computer speakers. I thought whenever you would turn the volume up a little needle poked their butts to make them be louder. So (being a kind person) i always turned the speaker down.

bri

I joined the navy at 18 to be on a submarine. The recruiter talked me into choosing nuclear power plant operator for my job-path and I thought it sounded pretty cool even though I knew zero about nuclear power. The next day in high-school I'm telling a friend about joining and running the sub with nuclear power and stuff and he says to me "oh, so they don't use propellers anymore?", and I'm like "no, they use nuclear power now." I guess I was picturing it to be some sort of jet propulsion type thing with 'nuclear power' shooting out the back of the boat to push it through the water. After boot-camp I started the classroom training and I was a little dissapointed by the low-tech reality of nuclear power. For those who don't know all it does is boil water to create steam for turbines.
On another note about the navy, I didn't realize until boot-camp that wood isn't used to build ships. I knew the outside was steel but I figured the inside must be at least partially wood to reduce the weight. What did I know, I was from Nebraska and had never even seen the ocean!

Anon