When I was in the 4th grade, my father bought me a program for my C-64 called "Little Computer People". It created a house on your screen with a little occupant that you could feed and care for; essentially, a forerunner of the virtual pet craze in the '90s. The premise printed on the packaging was that your computer really *was* run by tiny people, and that the software simply installed a tiny house to lure one of them to move in. My father assured me it was absolutely true. I believed him for a couple of years!
A childhood belief about computer games
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- Since my father had a deep cleft in his chin, I thought he was growing a tiny buttocks out of his face.— Rick
- I used to think people didnt actually kiss on tv,i thought that the computer just made it look that way.— deanna
- We didn't have a chimney in our house. Father Christmas had to come in through the letter box.— Ginnean
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon