When I was probably about four or five I used to hear about "skyscrapers" and I assumed that these were machines that scraped the sky clean. I have vivid pictures in my head of little upside down yellow bulldozers that would drive back and forth cleaning the clouds away.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- i believed that little men sat in the back of vending machines and pushed the sweets forward.— rachael
- back in the days i thought the world was black and white like in the pictures— compaq
- I used to believe that everyone in pictures could see me so i turned all of the pictures in my house backwardsAnon
- Because of cartoons, I thought that to drive you'd just turn the steering wheel back and forth constantly. — Mitsuki
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon