Fax machines used to baffle me. I figured the paper you fed into it was crumpled up and squeezed into that tiny cable, then it travelled about halfway to the destination. When it got there, the paper would flatten itself out again and somehow split into two papers, each one with only half the thickness of the original. One of these would travel inside the cable back to where it was sent, and the other would travel to the receiver, both inside those tiny cables. I was amazed that all this could take place within a few seconds, and that the papers showed no appearance of having been crumpled up.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that fax machines worked by sending papers down underground tunnels. Anon
- I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon
- I used to believe that fax machines and computers sent real sheets of paper through the lines.— H
- I used to believe fax machines instantly teleported a piece of paper to who ever you wanted. Anon
- My older brother made me believe that wristwatches were powered by tiny Japanese men inside them.— Outsider
- I used to belive that there were tiny people in vending machines that gave you your food.— Meah