I thought that if you wanted to print something out in landscape, you had to buy a special sideways-printing printer.

Randy

I was on the Internet in 1992 at the age of 10. I believed then that when you downloaded something, it disappeared from the site you downloaded it from and you became the only owner.

Soap

When I was aroud 3 years Old my family was travelling by car and we saw a big Factory Chimney. I asked what it was and my brother told me that was where the rockets were send to the moon. I Believed that until I was 7 or 8 years old!!

Paulo - Portugal

I believed that when my big brother recored my music tapes I got for christmas, that it would take all the music off my tape, and put it on his, leaving me with a blank tape. Of course I used to get in a strop, and just throw the tapes away when he had finished with them.

tim palmer

I knew perfectly well how the needle on a record player worked. When the needle touched the record, the singer would feel the needle. There must have been some kind of chart drawn on the singer's body, because depending on the exact point where he/she felt the needle, they would know what song to sing and start singing. Remote control human jukebox! I never did ask myself how a record continued to play after the singer had died....

Technogeek

I believed that a census was taken by a helicopter that flew over the cities and someone was there counting each and every person

chelsaea

When I was little, and the USA was still sending astronauts to the moon, I thought they all had to stay on the moon until they could build a rocket and come back. I wondered how many men they would have to send there before any them could come back.

Phil

My dad told me that there was a little guy in the vacuum machine that ate the dirt. I felt so bad for him, trapped in there all alone, that I cut the vacuum bag with scissors. Daddy walked in to find me covered in dirt, searching frantically for the little guy.

Melissa

When I was a child, electricity was delivered in these parts by the South of Scotland Electricity Board (it now calls itself "Scottish Power"). I believed that set up on end in the countryside near Stirling there was a huge piece of hardboard which was the South of Scotland Electricity Board. On one side cables went in from the power stations, and on the other side there were rows and rows of plug sockets with wires trailing out, each to one house.

Stephen from Scotland

when i was little we had one of those incredibly ancient computers. being three, i thought that the computer mouse was a real mouse. i used to make the mouse "squeak" by pounding the keyboard, making the computer emit a loud beep.

Kate

I used to think that theose scooters for disabled people were little kids rides where you put money in, and you get a ride.

Anon :

i used to belive if we cut the wire an old remote control car connecting the remote and wire i would get a wireless remote control car

Anon

I'm old enough that when I was a kid I listened to music mostly on vinyl.

When I heard on a sports report that Wayne Gretzky had had a good year in hockey and had "broken several of his own records", I pictured him snapping LPs in half. It seemed like a very strange and destructive way to celebrate a successful athletic career, but I probably figured he was rich enough to buy himself some more records.

Brenda

i used to think that you could just BUY a spaceship, like at the grocery store or something and we could go into space whenever we felt like it, so i asked my dad if he could take my cousin and me up into space sometime... i pictured us just floating there in our everyday clothes and then going back home and parking the spaceship in the garage...

give-it-to-me-now!!

I used to believe if you talked or sung when a photograph was taken, the words and musical notes would be seen in the image.

Anon

When I was young I used to fear that when somebody takes a photo of me I would go inside the camera and cannot see my parents forever. For this reason I used to cry when anybody tries to take a snap of me

Priya

I used to believe that computers were powered by hamsters in wheels inside the case, because of the constant whirring sound. Then i found out it's not hamsters, it's guniea pigs.

JiM

when i was on the computer one day, the screen suddenly turned blank and said that there was a FATAL ERROR. i was so scared by the word FATAL that i thought i was gonna die. my mom WAS right. i was stupid.

coocoohead

I used to believe that your computer mouse was really a mouse, in camouflage. I would pet them everyday...but I was puzzled why they wouldn't accept the food from me.

SAMANDMAU

When I was about 10 I went to my dad's office. They had just invested in a new piece of kit called a fax machine. My dad told me that it worked by tearing up the paper into little tiny bits and sending them down the wires, and at the other end they all got put back together again in the right order. I genuinely believed this, and in some respects I still do even though I'm 27.

Katie