I used to believe my computer monitor had a van inside. This started because I asked my dad what made the whirring noise. He said it had a fan... I said "Really? A real van?", "Yes." I was convinced for nearly ten years that computers had nothing except a little blue van in them. It never occured to me to ask what it was for.

Nicholas Wordsworth

I used to belive that making a tv was as easy as cennecting a TV antenna to a wire, connecting a little light bolb at the other end of the wire then putting a peice of glass in front of the light bolb when turned on and, WALLA you would see your favorite TV channel projected behind the glass.

Andrew

While doing the dishes one night my older brother told my younger one, who was about 7 or 8, how ships stayed afloat. In the bottom of all boats they had two big balloons. When they were full, they would float, when they were empty, they sank. My younger brother believed it until he was about 13, he read a picture book which was all about submarines and boats.

Tay

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

I used to believe that if someone took a picture of another person, the person in the picture would stay in that position/place forever.

RedshoesGreenlaces

I always though little men lived in the cats eyes in the road, also in the tellie - actually in most electrical appliances

tracy g

I thought every record player would automatically play a record when you start the player. This was a feature of the record player we had. I never thought any player would require a person to manually put the needle on the record. (Yes I remember records, even though I was born in 1977.)

I hate to admit it, but I was scared of the record player we had. It clicked whenever someone started to play a record and the sound frightened me. (By design, it was supposed to click.)

Matt Thiel

when i was little, my dad would tell me our computer had a virus. as soon as i heard that, i never touched a computer again because i thought the virus would catch me and i could die. Very sad, but true!

mary

when i was little i used to believe that electronics like comp. printers and radios had little people in side them working.I found out it wasnt true when i broke open the radio oops!:0

sammi

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

I used to believe that CD's were made of glass, until I learnt otherwise.

Anon

When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.

EJ - no longer computer illiterate!

When I was told a friend’s e-mail address to write down, I even spelled out “underscore” instead of putting “_”. lol

EJ - no longer computer illiterate!

I used to think that when you put in a video, the people in it had to really quickly run and start acting it again. It got really confsing for me when I realised that several people could watch the same film at the same time. my mum used to tell me that that wasn't right, but i only believed her when I was about 7!

Hannah

I believed that any time my family did anything requiring electricity or fuel - turn on the stove, answer the telephone, drive the car - it was processed and governed by a giant central computer somewhere with technicians running around and big flashing lights. I was never quite clear on whether they controlled things, or just monitored them, but I knew surely they were required to turn on the oven and the telephone and the car in the first place.

Appelonia

I used to think that html stood for hotmail and shtml stood for shitmail

Anonymous

When I was twenty-two years old, I heard that A. R. Ammons worked in the biological glass industry. I was fascinated because I thought it meant you could make windows out of bacteria or jellyfish.

ineffable f

I used to believe the speakers recorded my voice, not a built in microphone. I tried this on every speaker I owned and thought that I only had luck with some of them.

Anon

When I was young, my mother jokingly told me that cameras shoot out laser beams.
I believed that they would instantly desinigrate anything they hit so I was afraid of cameras until I was about 10.

Jeff-R

Iused to belive that the key ctrl was short for citral

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