science

I used to think that data was stored on C.Ds by making a unique combination of scratches on the disc while it was in the drive, kind of like braille.

I used to think that anything you did in front of the computer was able to be seen by others. I always refrained from saying stuff that I wouldn't say in public in front of the computer for fear than others could hear me!

I used to beleve that if you turmrd off the NUM LOCK (i used the row of numbers above the letters)
on a computer, uyou would turn off the computer.

I was on the Internet in 1992 at the age of 10. I believed then that when you downloaded something, it disappeared from the site you downloaded it from and you became the only owner.

I thought a Walkman (tape-version of the Discman) only worked if you were walking and when you stopped it would go off automatically. I always begged my brother to let me try it, but he said that if little kids used them then they'd go deaf and end up like those people who walked around carrying boomboxes on their shoulders. That was the only way they heard music. It was like some punishment- you used a walkman too early so you're partialy deaf and you have to carry a bigger radio. What a dork I was.

I use to think that if I laid real still in my bed at night I could feel the earth turn. I would do this all the time. I convinced myself I could feel the earth turn.

When I was really little, probably about 4 or 5 years old, I knew what gravity did (keeps you planted to the ground), but I used to think that the source of gravity was someone named Mr. Gravity, who lived under my parents' bed! I had a mental image of what he looked like and everything... I would also look underneath my parents' bed, trying to search for "Mr. Gravity". My parents never corrected me, probably because they thought it was "cute" or something.
I even thought that under this same bed was a planet of its own... I was a very, umm, imaginitive child!

When I was a little girl I knew that the earth rotated on it's axis. I thought that the earth made a complete turn every day and that while it was turning everything was upside down ! Since this didn't happen during the day I would try to stay awake all night long hoping to see everything upside down. When I would wake in the morning I'd be very disappointed because I missed it !

When I was really young, I thought you had to be silent to take a photo - if not, the picture would display the sound for ever; I remember not wanting my mom to play the flute while my dad was about to take a photograph...

I used to think you could dial your own telephone and speak to yourself - I could never work out why it was always engaged!

My 6 year old son said to me after the Columbia space shuttle exploded, "someone musta accidentally pressed the "explode" button."

i once convinced myself that when i watched tv, the whole screen dissapeared and a new one popped up whenever a show or commercial was over. to test this hypothesis i decided to put a huge sticker dead center on the tv screen....

when i was 3, my aunt had these small ceramic pigs...one day she was off in the other room or something and i was looking inside the vcr...i decided the inside of a vcr was a farm and put the pigs inside

My grandparents gave me and my sister pocket-size, transistor radios when we got old enough to operate them. I had no idea what a transistor was. I didn't even know it was an object; I thought the word was an adjective. I thought transistor meant "pocket-size".

When I was young, I used to occasionally get paranoid that gravity would suddenly start working in reverse. When I thought about this I would always try and make sure that there was a roof over me, just in case, cos I didnt want to fall into space forever.

I used to believe that when you put a cd in a cd-player, thet the band was inside the speakers, and i used to try and get them out!