Up until was 11 I used to think that in order to get an email address you had to phone up an email address office and they would give you a random address and password
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the Gettysburg Address was the mailing address of the White House.Anon
- I used to think being on holiday meant that you were moving house temporarily, like with a change of address.Anon
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- i thought that when you die they retire your email adress (apparently it's not true)— Nanofreak
- I used to htink that the Lord's prayer went "and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us some email..."— Dyth
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon