technology

My older sister, playingly, told me that there were little lego people in the furnace vent that every now and then would light fires and blow the hot air out of the vents. I used to sit in front of the furnace talking into it. You can imagine what my parents must of thought.

Anon

When I was a child, I naturally didn't know about recording, and how the whole process of playback worked. I never bothered to ask, though; I was convinced that singers had to sing a song every time I wanted to hear that song, and actors had to act out a movie every time I wanted to watch that movie.

Anon

When I was little my mom was cooking with the microwave. when it dinged it was done. so I thought that if you made it ding sooner that the food would be done sooner. I used to say "ding it ding it ding it!" when I was really hungry.

Kat

When I was younger I used to believe that the entire computer was present inside the keyboard. I did not realise the truth until much later I was attending a computer hardware course class and I asked the teacher how do all those computer components that she has explained fit inside the keyboard. It is then she told me that computer actually is a seperate box and I felt embarassed in front of the whole class. They were all laughing at me at that time and when I think of it sometimes I also laugh on it.

Mandeep Sahni

My mom worked, and still does work, for an accounting firm, so she faxes a lot of things. One time, when I was little, I was with her at work and she left me to go 'fax a letter' to someone. Till I was about thirteen I believed that you put a sealed and postaged stamped letter into a fax machine and it teleported it, letter and all, to the other fax machine and I was so excited we would have human sized teleporters within my lifetime. I think my delusion was shattered when I asked her if I could fax my Christmas thank you cards to my grandmother.

Anon

When I was very young, I could never figure out how guns worked. Eventually I came to the conclusion that the trigger was one end of a lever which pushed the round down the barrel.

child prodigy

You know those Terms of Use messages that come up when you install a new program? I thought that if you didn't read the ENTIRE thing, somehow the people in the company would know and send the police to your house and arrest you. I'm still slightly worried every time I don't read it and just click Next...

Haley

When I was a little girl I thought I was going to see flying cars in 2022 because I saw cartoons that said that year, but now that I'm older I realize that it doesn't exist.

Diara Guevara

When I was young, my older brother told me that there were tape recorders that could record voices and more expensive tape recorders that could record music. If you tried to record music with a less expensive voice-recording tape recorder, you would play back silence. We were very lucky that we had one of those expensive, music-recording tape recorders!

flotsam

When I was a kid, I believed "2001: A Space Odyssey" was filmed on location at Skylab, and that Skylab looked just like the space station in the movie.

Karen Williams

I was told a scary story by my babysitter once, about a girl who passed out in front of her microwave while it was heating something... and the girl's internal organs got all fried. To this day, I can't stand in front of the microwave while it's heating anything, I always stand to the side if I'm waiting. Funny thing, my little brother has the same inherent belief that microwaves are dangerous to stand in front of. We both just can't get the image of dangerous rays coming out to fry us, even though we're now both in our 20's.

Anon

I remember as a kid, when I first started using the internet (back in 96') I would type things how I thought they should be typed.

If I was searching for something with spaces in it, I didn't think the spaces were wide enough in-between the words (I don't remember how I logical decided this, but somehow I did) so for instance if I wanted to search "Frank Black" I would type in "Frank Black" or "F r a n k B l a c k".

This was probably because I thought that whenever I typed in something to a search engine, that it would actually be reviewed by someone and then they would give me back search results.

I thought it would make it easier for the search people in internet if I made it easier for them to read things.

Yup... those were the days.

Justin Grizwald

When I was 3 we lived with my great-grandmother in Missisiippi and my mom had a record player in our room. (This was in 1967 for those who don't know what a record player is!!) I was so curious about the spinning of it so she told me there was a little man under the record running in a circle making it spin. I always wondered if he had a friend in there to help if he got tired.

mommy0203

I used to baby sit these three girls, and one day i told them I would copy a CD for them, as in burn. The youngest one, at seven, asked me how you burned a CD... I told her that you just throw the CD you want a copy of, and an empty CD into the fireplace, light up, and when the flames are burned out, the CD would be finished, and you could put it in the CD-player. The next time I came to visit her, I found her throwing a cd into the fireplace... You should really learn to watch what you say around kids...

Baby sitter

I used to think that conputer viruses were little worms or caterpillars.One day mom was trying to get rid of a virus,then I said "why don't you jump inside and catch it with a net?"

whatever virus!!!!

not my belief but other kids wrong ideas. When I was in first year of high school I noticed the school library computer had crashed so I shouted to the librarian "the computer's crashed !" A few of my classmates laughed and scoffed at me; "did it crash into a wall?" I guess they were just not into computers exept for playing games.

opinionata

When I was a kid, I had two computers in my home, an Amiga 500 which uses the common 3 ½ inch floppy disks and a Commodore Colt that takes the older 5 ¼ inch floppy disks. Neither of my two computers back then had hard disk drives so I jumped to the conclusion that the 3 ½ inch disks of the Amiga were all hard disks because they had a much harder surface and were less flexible than the 5 ¼ inch disks. I had over one hundred games for the Amiga and I told some of the teachers at my school that I had a computer with over one hundred hard disks and they were wondering how the heck my family could afford so many hard disks and how I could fit all of the hard disks into my computer. I believed that all 3 ½ inch floppy disks were hard disks until I was 14, when my Info Tech teach set me straight by getting my to write one hundred lines stating that 3 ½ inch disks are floppy disks.

Confused Freak

When I was in elementary school, we did lots of things in the computer lab on our Apple Macintoshes. Whenever we could create a new file on them, the file would always be named "Ulited (pronounced YOU-lit-ed)." I thought that there was a giant software company called Ulited out there that made all the programs we used on the computer, and so, whenever we made a new file, the file would be named Ulited in their honor. Although all the files seemed to be credited to different companies, I knew in the end they were all owned by Ulited Corp, who quietly put their mark on all these products by inserting their name into the default file names.

I think I was 11 or 12 before I finally realized that the filename said "Untitled."

Freezair

I used to believe that 'radio' consisted of a big room somewhere that all the entertainers would come into, sing their song, then leave, and the next set would walk in and perform.

Craig H

When you put a letter in the post box, it goes to an underground conveyor belt that takes it all the way to the house of the nearest postman to the destination. Is that not true? (!)

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