technology

When I was younger I was convinced that the computer and printer were operated my hundereds of little men (never women). They lived in the computer and would use stamps to put the letters on the screen. When you printed something the little men would run back and forth to the printer telling the little men in the printer what to write. The men in the printer would then write on the paper very carefully (they all had really good handwriting). I can't quite figure out why the men would use stamps on the computer screen but would write on the actual paper.

technophobe

I used to believe that when you put a cd in a cd-player, thet the band was inside the speakers, and i used to try and get them out!

bewere of the dog/Clodagh

I used to believe that Windows was written in QBASIC. (This was at the time of Windows 3.1.)

Anon

When I was not very tall, I was told that when you flick up the lid of a lighter, the flint gets struck and the flame ignites. So I thought it only sensible that when you push the lid back down, the flint would be struck from the other direction, thus the flame would go out.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what really happens.

Gavin Cruickshank

when i was little, i used to believe that there was a band inside every speaker and the more expensive the speakers, the better the band was.

kro

I used to believe that record players worked based on radio; everytime you played a record, the artist would play the song from a studio at the radio station.

once creative

When I was eight, I first heard about computer viruses and I thought that a virus on a computer was a disease like a common cold in humans. It was the early nineties and we owned an Amiga Commodore; probably the best computer available in those days where the computer programs came on 3 1/2 inch floppy disks. My dad then told me that if you put a floppy disk on write-protected, you will prevent any viruses from getting on the disk, but I did not realize that write-protecting a disk prevents you from saving any files on it. I then thought that if you had a cold and you coughed or sneezed onto a floppy disk that is on write-enabled, you might give the disk a virus. The fact that I saw two Captain Planet episodes where Dr Blight's computer Mal caught a computer virus on the end of two episodes and was sneezing and coughing made me more firmly believe that computer viruses were like diseases in humans. It wasn't until I was sixteen that I realized that computer viruses are programs that are capable of reproducing themselves, deleting files and making unwanted copies of files on a computer to really slow it down.

Anon

When I was little, I used to think that there used to be little people inside things to keep them going, and that when things used to break down, the people had gone to sleep and needed to be woken up again. When something broke down and couldn't be repaired, I used to think that they had died and I used to get really sad.

Antony

When I was young I believed that my playstation wouldn't start a game unless I held the controller and put my energy into starting the game.

I thought the controllers had sensors that said hoy much you were trying to start the game and if you weren't trying hard enough the game wouldn't start.

Anon

When we passed a construction site once, where everyone's gone home but the machines are still there, my brothers told me they were still working, the machines just moved really slowly. I believe this for a few years until I saw a crane and bulldozer moving for real, and was blown away.

Tom

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

When i was child , i used to believe that wnen electricity was off in my place whole world would have faced the same problem.

sajju

I used to think that Microsoft is a repairman because my dad always called up Microsoft to fix his Windows.

Kye

When I was about 5, my family had a video disc player that played those big movies that look like big records. After a lot of thought, I realized that if putting a disc in made the movie show up on the screen, I should really be able to magnify anything that I put into the slot. So, I stuffed some popcorn in the player and waited patiently to watch a giant piece of popcorn pop onto the monitor... instead, my parents had to break the news that I had ruined my favorite machine.

Anon

When I was ten or so I believed that when you used a fax machine, it actually clipped up the page you sent into millions of little confetti pieces and sent them through the phone lines.

Anon

When I was little, when I watched my parents type e-mails or word documents, I would wonder how they typed so fast. I thought they just pressed random keys as fast as they could, and somehow it would piece together to be an e-mail. So when I tried it, I left my parents a message on the screen, telling them I needed more juice. They still make fun of me for it.

Typer Kid

When I was little, behind my school there was a very large metal box/room thing with a little door that contained a power transformer or something. It had a small oval-shaped transparent panel through which I could see something that looked vaguely like a robot face. Because of that, I used to believe that robots lived inside power transformers.

Carmen

When I was little, I had one of my babysitters tell me that there was a little guy in the headphones, singing to me. When I heard things with my headphones, it was really the little guy singing to me.

Faron

well when i was younger (6-7 years old), i used to believe that if in any room any electricity consuimg gadget like fans,tubelights,etc are switched on, and if any person is present in that room, then we would not be charged for it! so whenever i used to go out, i used to shout on my brother and force him into the room so that we would not be charged for it !!!

NIKHIL SHARMA

When I was young I used to think the screens at movie theaters were just like giant TVs. There was a VRC built into the wall below the screen and they just put a tape in and it played on the screen like a giant TV...

Amanda