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Once, when my dad was showing me some old computer equipment, I picked up an Ethernet adapter and asked him what it was. "That's a network card," he said, so whenever I saw a circuit board, I always referred to it as a network card.
flarn2006
As a child, I thought that the sky sometimes got dirty and needed cleaning (Incidentally, that was before I'd ever heard of air pollution.). I thought it because I'd heard of skyscrapers, and I envisioned that a skyscraper was a very long-handled blade for scraping the sky clean.
Adrienne
In the 90s there was a rumor going around at the school I taught in that pressing F12 would cause the computer to explode. Everyone (even some of the other teachers) believed it, so I would scare the class by pressing F12.
Christopher
I used to poke my fingers through and try to look inside of the In-Car tape deck at home all the time when I was about four or five years old. Thought there were little people singing inside of the machine and I really really wanted to meet them.
Sophie
When I was little, I thought there were tiny cameras everywhere and they belonged to the government.
Brooke
I used to think that satellites were launched from satellite dishes.
Mike
I am pretty autistic, so there wasn't much that I had trouble understanding, but I still used to think that the little black squares on circuit boards had glass in them (which isn't too far from the truth), and that the circuit boards themselves were made from some kind of cardboard.
noah
When I learned about faxes, I thought you could fax whole objects. Like in Willy Wonka. Ex. Scan a chair, and fax the info, and a chair comes out where you sent the fax.
Skashlee
In Denmark (where I grew up) a calculator is called something that would translate back into "Pocket Calculator".
Because of this I often wondered as a child, how such a device could calculate the contents of my pockets.
Many years ago, the website "www.www.com" was an informational site about the history of the Internet (it's since been removed). One day, I accidentally typed in "www.com" and hit ENTER. My mom was looking over my shoulder, and when the info page came up, she told me, "Obviously, if you type www.com, you don't know how to use the Internet. That's not a real website, it's the computer trying to teach you what you're doing wrong."
I was 10, she was 40. She totally believed that, and I was internally laughing at her for years.
NoTechForMama
I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!
Alberto Richardson
I used to believe that if you photocopied a piece of blank paper, the copy would make a new piece of paper. I thought that I was the first one to come up with this and was convinced my family could save millions of dollars in paper :)
Lauren
I used to believe that the robots living inside the computer that controls displays, keyboards, and printers.
I used to believe that when you fax something, the machine crumbled up the paper and sent it through the telephone wires and when the other machine received it, the machine ironed it out. But that didn't explain why the person still had the original sheet! I couldn't figure that part out.
M
I believed that the sound from a speaker traveled around the speaker in a circle very fast, and if you poked a hole in the speaker, the sound would stop when it came around to the hole. I believed this until I poked a hole in our car radio's speaker just to see if it was true. My dad never found out. (Thank goodness.)
Dave
When I was a kid, I thought that when I turned off the computer, the characters from the computer games gathered around a bonfire and talked to each other about what I did to them the whole day.
When internet first came out & my aunt got a connection, I used to believe that they were able to buy anything they wanted for free by shopping online.
Haifa
When AOL first came out and had it's signature, "You've Got Mail" thing, I thought to myself, "How in the world do they know that the mail man already came by!"
Jenn
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
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