We were studying birds (or something) at primary school when one rich kid had a computer (very new thing) and printed out some fact on a particular native species. For quite a few years I thought that he had asked the computer about it and the computer had just given him what it knew, because computers knew everything...
We've sort of come full circle with google...
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to think people didnt actually kiss on tv,i thought that the computer just made it look that way.— deanna
- My cousin thought the BASIC computer command GOTO was prenounced "Got-oo" rather than "Go To"— Richard Davies
- I used to pronounce the word "Computer" as "Crocuta"
Anon - I used to believe Chad Kroeger from Nickelback was computer generated— Indeed
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - I used to beleive that the computer bugs were real creatures that lived in your pc and ate away at it.— BoBo