I used to believe that tape recorders had to be rewound on both sides. I would sit for hours and rewind my Micky Mouse tape on one side, flip it to the other and rewind that side, flip it back over and think "guess I didn't rewind it all the way!"
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that in order to rewind a film the actors would have to re-act the whole movie backwards. — movies backward
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I used to think the lyrics to "Too Legit To Quit" were "Do the flip, do the tootsie flip"— cassie
- When I was little, my mom told me she was Karen from the Micky Mouse club, and I told everyone at school. — Amber
- I used to believe that if I chewed on one side of my mouth too much the other side would get jealous.Anon
- I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.— Felix