I used to believe that photocopy machines contained special rubber stamps with every possible text or image they might ever need to reproduce, so it was just a simple matter of the machine picking the right stamp.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the Kama Sutra was the hindu religous text.— M!ke
- I used to believe you could edit a webpage in IE by highlighting and typing in the new text.Anon
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- I had an 18 lb. cat who ate rubber bands, I used to believe she could bounce away if not careful.— Dawn
- I used to believe that your brain was a red rubber ball inside your head.— Greg