technology

I can't believe I still remember this.. but... My parents had this stereo with an 8-track. I would open the door to the 8-track and look for the little men playing the music.. strange, I could never find them.

Denis Osborne

I used to believe that you could tell how much room there was on a blank video cassette tape by how much writing was on the label. If the label was completely covered with writing the tape was all full, and if it was only half covered the tape was only half full, and so on. It didn't matter if the person who wrote it just had really big or really small writing, or whether what was on the tape was a movie or just a TV show - as long as the label still had room on it, you could still tape more stuff.

So when I decided to tape my favorite show one day, I chose a tape that only had a tiny bit of writing at the very top of the label, thinking I'd have lots of room to tape as many episodes of my show as I wanted. I couldn't believe it when the tape ran out after only 1 1/2 episodes. Turns out almost the whole tape was taken up by three of my parents' movies that had short titles, but were about 2 or 3 hours apiece. That blew my theory out of the water.

BandGeek

When I was really young, I thought you had to be silent to take a photo - if not, the picture would display the sound for ever; I remember not wanting my mom to play the flute while my dad was about to take a photograph...

Mariane

When I was 23 my sister and I were driving in California on a road trip when I looked up at the power lines and said "Isn't it amazing how the power is in those lines and then it just shoots into your house through the air?" She turned her head around in shock and questioned my statement. I further went on to detail how I thought power just shot around the air like cell phones or tvs. She set me straight on how power arrives at my house and the dangers of electricity loose in the air.

Ashley

i used to belive that early laserdiscs would play my vinyl records and show the movie - i wanted to put my star wars soundtrack record in the slot and watch the movie

Anon

My older brother made me believe that wristwatches were powered by tiny Japanese men inside them.

Outsider

for quite sometime as a kid (when I had numerous battery operated toys) I used to believe that empty batteries were lighter than full ones: it took me quite sometime to get my head around the concept that electricity could not be weighed!

dopey_jon

When I was little, my family had a stereo system with the speakers standing upright. This is the way it was set up all through my childhood. I used to believe that if the speakers were put on their sides, the music would come out sideways.

AJ

There was a sub teacher in my cooking class last year and he started to talk about how micro-waves heated the food in the microwave and before thinking i raised my hand and said "so what does the lightbulb do"

alex

Between the ages of 3 and 7, my older sister, told me that a computer was a big bug that would eat me up if I touched it. I beleived that story till I was about 8!!!! I acedentally told my mom one night when we were having dinner (I thought the asparaugus looked like bugs).

She only told me that because she hadnt figured out how to use passwords and she didnt want me to read her mail!

Jane

I use to a believe that musicians lived inside my cassette tapes. I would play them over and over and after a while I would think the musicians were tired so I would give them a break and then play the tape again later.

Kristy

Remember vinyl records and turntables? I used to believe that a tiny band with tiny instruments lived inside the middle of the record and would run up through the grooves and into the arm of the turntable then into the speakers to play their music.

Juicyfruitkisses

One day at my grandma's house I was looking at a book that I wanted on Amazon.com. My cool grandmother came in, and, without question, bought the book for me and my little brother. i knew it would be a few days before we got it in the mail, but my brother sat anxiously in front of the printer, asking where it would come out.

Anon

I believed that an Xray was this piece of fabric that you would go behind and would rip out your bones. After displaying them on a screen, they would sew the bones back into your body. When I had to go to the doctor so I could get an xray... you could tell that I freaked out.

Anon

When I was little I used to play one of those art games on the computer where you can print out your picture. I didn't know how a printer worked, but I knew there was a wire connecting the printer to the computer. I thought that when you printed something out, the paper with picture you were painting would roll up and travel through the wire to the printer, then when it got to the printer, it would slowly unroll it (when it would actually be depositing ink on the paper) so that it wouldn't tear. I finally realized my mistake when I was about 4 and we ran out of paper, so I asked my mom how to put more in the computer.

Anon

when i was young i believed that that my uncles ride on lawn mower would not start untill I said "goodmorning or hello hotrod Harry" to it,

my dad or uncle would do something so that itwouldnot start and when I said "goodmorning" they would start it properly

shane

I remember being scolded for not shutting the refrigerator door all of the way. Somehow I came to believe that if I didn't shut the refrigerator door all the way that it would eventually stop closing. I would test this theory out by leaving the refrigerator door slightly ajar and then quickly running in a circular path throughout the house (out one kitchen door and in another)back to the refrigerator to see if the door was any harder to shut.

Sammy

One day when I was young, I asked my Dad where electrity came from and he said that is came from a wheel being pushed by water. I'm not sure why, but I guess I must have been looking at a mountain when I saw it because I beleived that electricty came from wheels in the mountain.

-little Jupiter Kid

When I was little about 4 or 5 I used to think if I took a paper cup and made a hole in the bottom, that when I looked through it, it was my own personal video camera, and it was recording everything I looked at through it.

GoSailor

I thought that the millenium bug was a real bug that would come out and eat everyone when the clock changed to 2000

Chris