When I was about 10 I went to my dad's office. They had just invested in a new piece of kit called a fax machine. My dad told me that it worked by tearing up the paper into little tiny bits and sending them down the wires, and at the other end they all got put back together again in the right order. I genuinely believed this, and in some respects I still do even though I'm 27.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when you sent a fax, the paper went through the wires.— em
- I used to believe that fax machines worked by sending papers down underground tunnels. Anon
- I used to believe fax machines instantly teleported a piece of paper to who ever you wanted. Anon
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- I used to believe the show Law and Order was a gardening show called Lawn and Order.— Adriana
- i used to believe that one piece of ear wax was actually called a wach. — rachael