For the longest time I thought programming was something impossibly difficult, but not in the way you might think. I thought that the only way to program anything was to randomly press buttons, but nobody knew what effect they had. Programmers would press these buttons, and statistically, every once in a while a viable program would be produced. I thought it was a totally blind process, and a miracle anything resulted from it.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- There was a Chinese takeaway near us called the Orient Express. I thought it was Onion Press. Yeah.— Spook
- I used to believe that red pistachio shells were the same as women's press on nails.— Bob
- I used to believe that inside each volcano there was a guy who'd press a button to make it erupt.— Jim, UK
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman - From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian
- I used to believe that rocket ran on gasoline and that in order to save gas, we should end the space program.Anon