When I was about 4 or 5, I believed that stuffing paper into a vcr would make in work better (I don't know why). I was corrected years later when our vcr broke and we bought a new one. We were wondering what went wrong with the old one, and opened it up. Inside was all the little bits of paper.

Mike

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

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? (!)

imgareth

I used to believe that the computer would blow up if I did the wrong thing or asked it to do too much.
Sadly, I still kinda do.

Anon

When I was small, I was told that if you left an electrical device plugged in with the power turned off, it would catch fire or explode.

Darren

I used to think that little elves lived in my computer and that when the computer was turned off they were sleeping. The computer was right outside the bathroom, so whenever I tried to go to the bathroom I would tiptoe past the computer and if I made a noise I would hide because I was afraid they'd be mad at me for disturbing their sleep.

Maddy

when i was in junior high and we were driving home from camp, we passed all these windmills. my friend was wondering how they worked and we actually convinced her that there were people inside moving the propellers.

smika

I used to believe that if you talked into the c.d. player while the radio was on, other people would hear it. So I would always run to the radio and shout things I wanted people to know. Like my birthday so people would bring me presents...

confused

I liked watching science shows when I was younger, but I guess I didn't understand them too well...I believed that without a doubt that scientists were on the verge of cloning dinosaurs (I couldn't figure out why though!). And when Jurassic Park came out, I thought it was real...

Anon

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 about five I had (and still have, though I don't use it as much anymore) a Magic School Bus dinosaur game. In it the bus was a time machine and could travel to the age of the dinosaurs. It convinced me that I could build a time machine if I put a timer in a cardboard box and it would work if it was thrown into the air and it would fly to the time of the dinosaurs. So every day I would find the kitchen timer and sit in the box with it and begged my parents to throw me into the sky so I could go back in time but they kept telling me I couldn't but I kept believing I could. Eventually I was able to annoy everyone with this time machine stuff and my mom threatened to take away the Magic School Bus CD. I gave up when my parents finally explained thoroughly why it wasn't possible.

Anon

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