when i was about ten or eleven i would go on chats a lot to talk with friends. i knew people can see you sometimes cause i had watched my mom chatting before, but i didnt understand that you had to have a webcam in order to do that. so everytime i would chat, i would dress up my best and make sure i didnt do anything to embarrass myself and i would sit next to my barbies so all the girls would think i was "cool" for having so many.
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i used to think that it you kept the volume off on the teleivision set. it would explode.
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i used to think that whenever someone called someone else on a telephone that only the reciever needed a telephone and the caller just talked into the air.
Once when I was six my computer wasn't working propalely and my dad said it had computer virus. Then I got really worried because I thought I might catch the virus off it and freeze up. It wasn't 'til a couple of years later that I found out you can't catch a virus from computer.
I used to believe that whenever was a powercut, I could still watch the telly, by opening the back side of it and gently put a lt candle.
I used to believe that everyone's phone number was 1-800-[their name.] So my friend Lindsay's number would have been 1-800-Lindsay, Big Bird's was 1-800-Big-Bird, etc.
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I used to believe that if you timed the microwave for more than three minutes for ANYTHING, the microwave would explode.
When I was little I had a fluorescent bulb in my bedroom. It would often take 1-2 seconds to fully turn on. This was grand because I thought that when people were referring to the speed of light, they mean how long it took a light bulb to turn on starting when the flip was switched. This made me very happy, because I could run to the center of my room before the light came on, and was therefore faster than the speed of light!
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I used to believe that when you heard noise on the telephone that sounded like wind blowing, it really was the wind blowing through telephone wires.
We were taught about AIDS before we were taught about viruses. We learned about viruses in middle school. But, of course, even in middle school, they had to teach us about AIDS first. Pretty much, all we knew about AIDS was that it had something to do with RNA and Helper T-cells, since those were the words they kept using. So up until high school, I always associated RNA as a diseased DNA.
So they described the process of how the AIDS virus spreads: the virus attaches onto a white blood cell and injects some of itself into the cell. The little viruses multiply and become more viruses until the cell is so stuffed with viruses that it explodes with lots of little AIDS viruses.
Very smart of them to teach us about AIDS before teaching us about viruses IN GENERAL.
See, the way AIDS infects the body is THE SAME WAY ALL VIRUSES INFECT THE BODY. But I didn't know that. So for years, I thought that all viruses that spread like that (which would be all viruses) were AIDS!
When I was younger I asked my dad:
"If I let go of a balloon, would it float up to heaven or space?"
He replied "It'd pop eventually."
I was hugely disappointed, as I'd already let go of a helium balloon that day with my name and address attached to it, hoping that an angel or astronaut would receive it and I'd get some sort of penpal (I wasn't picky).
Incidentally, it ended up a few streets away.
I thought the Operator lived inside the telephone.
I remember making myself a pair of Icarus wings out of cardbord. I drew wing shapes and cut them out and made arm straps too. I was really convinced that I would be able to run down the street flapping my arms and take off.
Needless to say, I was heartbroken when it didn't work. :(
when I was younger, I used to think that CD's had the artists inside of it and whatever song you picked they would have to perform it. I was obsessed with the spice girls, but felt mean if I made them play a song too many times, I barelly listened to their CD's. But I hated the backstreet boys so I played 1 song over and over just to make them get worn out. I was a little cookoo.
When I was about 9 or 10, I heard about the Internet. I thought that when you bought things off the internet, you had a little box attached to your computer with a hole and you'd drop coins in the hole, and when you'd put in enough money, they'd send whatever you bought to you.
I used to think that when music was playing in our c.d. player the actual band was squashed unto the c.d. and would play when the c.d. got hot. I never wanted to be a musician.
When the cellphones were invented and I used to watch them on tv how they look like, one day my dad came up from work with a remote control and leave it on top of the bed. I enter the room and stole it try to dial the button. I just found out later that that was a remote.
I used to think "lobotomy" meant a brain transplant, and that brain transplants existed. In other words I thought that people getting lobotomies were getting the brains of other people put into them .. organ donors presumably. I learned the truth when one day during a conversation about consciousness I started to say "if you get a lobotomy ..." and then I stopped myself realizing I was about to say something really stupid. I said "wait never mind" and let someone else talk for a minute.
I never understood how fax machines worked until about 2 years ago. I thought that that actual paper you put into the machine was somehow sent to the other person's fax machine, and it was the actual paper that you had put into yours. I was totally perplexed until my mom explained it to me.
I used to believe that when drawing with something like ms paint on your computer and using lots of colors, the computer would eventually run out of colors and you'd have to buy new colors from the store. Much like you have to do with printers.