When I was a kid, I thought it was illegal to photocopy pages out of books, because of that message that says 'all rights reserved' and tells you not to copy out of the book without permission from the publisher, and thought people had to contact the publishing company just to get permission for that! Like the privacy policy that you get on the internet with so many websites, makes more sense as you get older and learn about new inventions.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- for my first Internet year, i believe all the ".ca" sites stands for Calif State websites.— ray cheng
- I thought the lines in the sky left behind by airplanes were "sky scrapers". Makes sense.Anon
- I thought a major general is more powerful than just a general (which still kind of makes sense to me)— Demond
- I thought there was only one copy of a movie and you had to wait til it got to your town,— quagmire
- I used to think that Legal and Illegal meant the same thing (illegal)— Dhruv
- i thought the sky was white and the clouds were blue. Nobody actually tells you otherwise,do they?— fatcat