I used to believe that I could record sound with seashells. I tried recording the Pastor at my parent's church when I was a kid. I tried several times, and finally gave up, dissapointed it wouldn't work. It captured the ocean's sounds, after all!
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could only play a record once, and after that all the sound was wiped off.Anon
- I used to believe that if you played a record too many times it would wear it out.— April
- i used to believe that if your seatbelt was un-done the car wouldn't move or work at allAnon
- I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .— JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]
- I used to belive there were people under the traffic lights, otherwise they wouldn't work...Anon
- I used to think that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was really "My Body Lies Over the Ocean."Anon