When I was little I knew that if you ran "C:\Con\Con" on a windows 95/98 PC it was mess up the computer. I thought that "C:\Con\Con" was some kind of magic word that would mess up or kill anything you said it to, or wrote on. I was horrified that I might absent-mindedly mumble it to myself or write it on myself. I once had a nightmare that it happened and I died. One die I was fed up with my little brother, so I wrote on his forehead "C:\Con\Con" during his nap, because I knew it was mess up his head. I still write it on things I don't like, it's a force of habit. I'm a nerd.

I miss my Windows 95 :(

I had a terrible time remembering the name for mechanical pencils. I always called them electrical pencils.

Anon

when i was younger because i used to watch james bond and they said something about giving someone a cat scan and i thought that meant that it erased your memory i thought that until my step brother told me it was something differnt and i felt dumb!!!

lauren

I used to believe that the name of the Commodore 64 home computer was Commandore 64.

Anon

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

For the longest time when I was little, I was scared to ride in any elevators. I would either hold on to the railing or onto my mother very tightly and close my eyes. I used to believe that when it started going up or down, any small child would be hurled in the opposite direction and stuck there until it stopped, thus causing them to be hurt badly. This more so in hospital elevators so they could have patients to work on.

PhantomLover007

When you go up in an elevator, the elevator surpasses your destination floor and then goes back down to that floor.

When you go down in an elevator, the elevator surpasses your destination floor and then goes back up to that floor.

MD Caruso

This goes for my friend

He thought when online ordering first came out. The item would just pop out of the computer screen!

CLH

I thought the RCA dog was in all microphones....Yeah..weird huh... One time at church I asked my dad how microphones worked and he said there was a little dog in there that moved up and down and it made noises louder. I instantly pictured the dog on RCA records sitting buy that big horn looking phonograph thing and thought he was in all microphones. I found out years later that my dad (from the old'n days) used the word dog to decribe many little parts he didnt understand or know better how to describe...

Joe Hodges

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

When my sister and I found out that we could write emails to Mary-Kate and Ashley, I was so excited and I thought that they would be our best friends! I really thought they would come have playdates with me... nevermind the fact that I was 7 and they were 12 or 13.

nivalep

I used to think that anything you did in front of the computer was able to be seen by others. I always refrained from saying stuff that I wouldn't say in public in front of the computer for fear than others could hear me!

anonymous

Ibelieved only computers could think.((i started at a too early age my mom says))

Gordy

i used to belive that computers were really smart people that we buy

sarzz

I used to belive that computers could come alive and kill us. (when I was 5)

Beefy

You know how your voice sounds much different on a tape recorder? I used to believe that if I recorded my voice onto a tape, listened to the recording and mimicked the sound, when I recorded that it would end up sounding like I thought I sounded all the time.

joe

I used to believe people lived in video cameras.

Taylor

I used to think the internet was AOL. (America Online)

susan

When i was the tender age of six, i asked my old man how ATMs and the garage door worked. He told me there was a little guy who lives there and operates the ATM and the door.

Colton

i used to believe that you could collect email without connecting to the internet

aol cutomer