When I was little I used to believe that when you put the VCR on record, it would record all the noise in the background. So whenever it was on record I wouldn't say a thing, and wondered why everyone else in my family was talking.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .— JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]
- I used to believe that you could only play a record once, and after that all the sound was wiped off.Anon
- I used to believe that if you played a record too many times it would wear it out.— April
- I used to believe that records were the power source for record players.— bob
- I used to believe that the priest was God because everytime a child cried, he wouldn't be talking.Anon
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex