My parents got our first computer when I was about 9 and windows 95 was just released. I had no idea what I was doing and was just going through all the random "folders" looking for games. My cousin's computer had Oregon Trail, and this computer was way better so my "Oregon Trail" game must be amazing!
I must have done something wrong and the computer froze up saying "This program has been shut down due to an illegal operation." I FREAKED OUT and unplugged EVERYTHING from the computer... The power, the screen, the keyboard, mouse, and the printer before hiding under my bed for hours. I was convinced 'they' were coming to arrest me for breaking some law. I remember literally crying that I was going to be taken away in handcuffs.
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I moved the mouse around on the mouse pad, I was giving the computer a massage.Anon
- My cousin thought the BASIC computer command GOTO was prenounced "Got-oo" rather than "Go To"— Richard Davies
- I used to pronounce the word "Computer" as "Crocuta"
Anon - I used to believe Chad Kroeger from Nickelback was computer generated— Indeed
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - I used to beleive that the computer bugs were real creatures that lived in your pc and ate away at it.— BoBo