My mom told me that when she was younger the whole world was black and white. I believed her until I was like ten. And going through her and my father's old pictures, I thought that the adding of color to the world was a gradual thing, because the pictures started with a little color then gradually became like today.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- back in the days i thought the world was black and white like in the pictures— compaq
- i used to think that the world used to be black and white, cos that's what grandma's pictures showed me...— bgumm
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM
- I used to believe that a long time ago, just like in old pictures, the world was black and white loolAnon
- after watching "the wizard of oz" i thought kansas was black and white and the rest of the world was color!— kelly
- I used to believe that before color television the real world was in black and white. — Chris