When I was a kid I couldn't figure out how video got to a TV through a tiny little cable, and with so many channels! I figured that a huge set of tiny images must be transferred through the cable using fibre optics or something (like a multiplexed image), and then the TV would pick a section of this big image when you choose a channel, then magnify that section onto the TV screen and voila - TV! I figured the sound was picked up using some sort of radio tuner. I was tempted to cut the cable and see if a bunch of tiny images would project from it! I understand how they work today, but you gotta admit, it's pretty amazing how color video goes through a simple 2-pin cable.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- Living near Canada's border without cable, I didn't know I was American. — Romania
- I thought that little tiny people changed the color of the stop lights.Anon
- I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon
- i used to think that little tiny spiders would grow big while my mom wasn'r looking and eat me.— rodog
- I used to think that Gatorade had little tiny alligators swimming around in it.— SAVE THE GATORS!
- I used to think that Pez candy were teeny tiny bath tubs.— Mitsuki