When I was little I knew that if you ran "C:\Con\Con" on a windows 95/98 PC it was mess up the computer. I thought that "C:\Con\Con" was some kind of magic word that would mess up or kill anything you said it to, or wrote on. I was horrified that I might absent-mindedly mumble it to myself or write it on myself. I once had a nightmare that it happened and I died. One die I was fed up with my little brother, so I wrote on his forehead "C:\Con\Con" during his nap, because I knew it was mess up his head. I still write it on things I don't like, it's a force of habit. I'm a nerd.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie
- I legitmately thought that my mom wouldnt be able to read my diary if I wrote it pig latin!— Ashley
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan
- I used to believe that mall directories were magic because they always knew where you were.— eric
- Chopin wrote Chopsticks.Anon
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen