I used to think that a CD burner would literally burn the CD and when my dad bought one I asked "why don't you just use the fireplace?"
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain
- When I was young I had a plan to shoot big piles of paper up to the sun so it would never burn out.— Waterbottle