When I was around 6 years old my parents had an old fashioned radio, you know the ones that are the same size as a small fridge - I used to think it would only broadcast 1940's music and news!
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe
- I got the 1990s and 1900s mixed up, so I thought people wore that fancy old-fashioned garb in the 1990's.Anon
- My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.— kathy
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon
- I used to believe if you listened to to music upside down the music would be backwards— HOopty
- I used to think that AM and FM stood for "American Music" and "Foreign Music."— Sylvia Fowler