You know that sort of windy noise in the telephone, like if you had a bad connection, or you'd hear it after you hung up? I used to think it was caused by the wind blowing through the telephone wires.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that bird perched on telephone wires to keep their feet warmAnon
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart