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When I was about 3, I would refuse to have my picture taken because I thought cameras and taking photos hurt!!!
When I was growing up in the 50s I thought we had reached the Moon - well, it seemed so close! I was delighted to find it might actually happen in my lifetime - and, of course, it did. I am now a space buff, and sometimes think the history of spaceflight has simply been a matter of reality catching up with my childish misconceptions!
Ray Ward
Where I live in Sweden, there is an ice hockey team is named "HV71". When I was around 11-12 years old, my grandmother on my mother's side told me that it was two teams, "'Huskqvarna" and "Vätterstad", who merged in the year 1971 to become HV71. I was born in 1982. One day in the spring of 1994, my dad bought me an old computer from another. The computer was named "Commodore 64", and I thought it was introduced in 1964.
Johan
When I first saw a lift, I thought it was amazing because I believed that there was a magic whole in the building where when people get into the lift, the door would shut and it would take you anywhere. And you would come out through the same door on a different floor. I never figured out how it worked until much later.
kathy
I thought google was a place where they sold goggles online
google
I use to believe that when you faxed someone something the paper would somehow travel through the machine through some wires and tunnels in the ground where workers would read it and laugh at the sender and into the next machine. The first few times I used a fax machine i would fold the paper I wanted faxed in half so that no one else coud read my message then fax it. It was a few months later, and many blank faxes before someone told me (amid laughter) how a fax machine worked.
when i was 8 or 9 years old i used to think that the tape rolls in cassettes were curtains in front of a mini stage and that when you plugged the power chord into the wall and played the tape the singer or group would travel throught the wire, hide behind the tape rolls( curtains) and play their music. To satisfy my curiosity i once smashed open a cassette to find these mini performers but ended up with boring pile of magnetic tape.
neeraj
I USED TO THINK THAT FAX'S WENT UNDER THE GROUND IN TUNNELS AND OUT THE OTHER SIDE - untill i was about 16 and a mate told me the truth - THE SHAME!
jeni hall
When I was 7/8 (can't remember!) I went to my dad's office and saw his employee's paper shredder that had a reverse button on it (in case of a paper jam) and I said, out loud, "Oh, that's a good idea, so if you shred the wrong thing, you can have it restored!" OOPS! I was so embarrassed!
Anonny Boy
When I was a child i used to believe you had to say 'cheese' to any camera type thing including the video camera. So the camera would face to me and I would say cheese for 5 minutes until I ran out of breath.
Vanessa
I used to believe that when my parents were recording anything on TV, I had to be quiet around the VCR because any sound I make would also be recorded onto it.
Waffo
I used to believe you could edit a webpage in IE by highlighting and typing in the new text.
When I was about four, I'd call my Grandmama up every day to tell her how things were invented. Our conversations went like this:
"Grandmama! Guess how the toaster was invented?"
"How?"
"Well, the cavemen went to the city and picked up some rubbish from the streets, like soda cans, juice boxes, and old socks. Then Fred Flintstone melted them all together and made a toaster!!"
skittlezfrog
My dad used to tell me there was a midget in the photo booth at the mall and he would work inside the booth to develop the pictures.
Ginger
We were studying birds (or something) at primary school when one rich kid had a computer (very new thing) and printed out some fact on a particular native species. For quite a few years I thought that he had asked the computer about it and the computer had just given him what it knew, because computers knew everything...
We've sort of come full circle with google...
cc
I used to seeing modem used for internet connection in my home early from my days of childhood.I used to believe(nope I should correct it as "I used to wonder)how my dad used to browse the web by simply connecting the modem a "white bulky box" ... n' to add to it he was able to do this even when there was no power supply!!!
iNtRuDeR
My dad works at the electric power station as an engineer. Whenever there was a power outage I would ask and quarrel with him why he cut off the electricity while I was home.
Sunita
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
Once a friend of mine and I tried to figure out scientifically why every time we walked in front of a radio a certain way that it just made static noises. I believe we concluded that we were absorbing the radio waves.
Neal
I used to believe that, when sending a fax, the pages would physically go THROUGH the cables, right to information's destination...
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