technology

I used to believe that contact lenses were made out of fish scales

ddm

When I was younger I was convinced that the computer and printer were operated my hundereds of little men (never women). They lived in the computer and would use stamps to put the letters on the screen. When you printed something the little men would run back and forth to the printer telling the little men in the printer what to write. The men in the printer would then write on the paper very carefully (they all had really good handwriting). I can't quite figure out why the men would use stamps on the computer screen but would write on the actual paper.

technophobe

I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.

Tyler

Up until i was roughly 5 I thought escalators had someone to pull on the rubber side at the top. Or push at the bottom.
The people did it all night, pulling and pushing at the escalator rilas so it would keep running for the whole day. I was worried that it would eventually stop during the day and the people would get into trouble, so whenever I used one I spent 2 minutes or so pulling on the rail at the top. My mother always kept a straight face as I left, panting with a modest, "That should be enough for now."
Once I wondered about the inviting red button beside the rail. Of course, I pressed it, being only about 2 or 3. The escalator stopped and now I remember the squiggly lines above the button ahd read 'EMERGENCY STOP'.
Haha. I was a little terror, eh?

Crazy Elli

When I was about 5, my family had a video disc player that played those big movies that look like big records. After a lot of thought, I realized that if putting a disc in made the movie show up on the screen, I should really be able to magnify anything that I put into the slot. So, I stuffed some popcorn in the player and waited patiently to watch a giant piece of popcorn pop onto the monitor... instead, my parents had to break the news that I had ruined my favorite machine.

Anon

When I was about 4 or 5, I believed that stuffing paper into a vcr would make in work better (I don't know why). I was corrected years later when our vcr broke and we bought a new one. We were wondering what went wrong with the old one, and opened it up. Inside was all the little bits of paper.

Mike

I used to believe money was directly printed inside the ATM. As in, you´d type in 50 dollars and the machine would print the exact amount and give it to you...
hey, it always made such strange sounds!

joana

When I was 3 or 4 I belived there wasd a little man in the computer.So I used it often.The End

Shane

I used to believe that Power Plant about thirty miles from my house was a cloud factory due to the cooling towers putting forth huge amounts of white steam.

Anon

When I was little - my parents would record popular childrens movies that were played on TV so that we could re-watch them.
I used to think that the VCR only worked over night - so you had to go to sleep, and could only watch the program again the next morning.

Grace

When I was about five I had (and still have, though I don't use it as much anymore) a Magic School Bus dinosaur game. In it the bus was a time machine and could travel to the age of the dinosaurs. It convinced me that I could build a time machine if I put a timer in a cardboard box and it would work if it was thrown into the air and it would fly to the time of the dinosaurs. So every day I would find the kitchen timer and sit in the box with it and begged my parents to throw me into the sky so I could go back in time but they kept telling me I couldn't but I kept believing I could. Eventually I was able to annoy everyone with this time machine stuff and my mom threatened to take away the Magic School Bus CD. I gave up when my parents finally explained thoroughly why it wasn't possible.

Anon

I used to think that installing the Windows operating system would turn your computer into a window! Then you could see the magic bubbles (pixles)that made the pictures on the screen and make your own picture!!(i used to think that as well!)

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I used to think that it was only weak lasers that just made a dot of light. I thought that with Reaaly powerful ones, you could see the lazer beam. Then i was told that the readon you could see the beam sometimes was that the test room was full of dust!

i was reasonable, right?

When I was about five or so, I remember looking through a catalogue with my friend and finding in it our very own life sized robots! We were so impressed we begged our parents for them (they cost a whole £3.50 each or something). We spent our time planning how we could have our very own robots serve us and do our chores etc. When they finally arrived however, they were a whole 4 inches tall and went round in circles. I remember wanting to have my parents write to the catalogue and complain about false advertising.

Pete

When I was very young, I could never figure out how guns worked. Eventually I came to the conclusion that the trigger was one end of a lever which pushed the round down the barrel.

child prodigy

I used to believe that there was a person called Houston that all the astrounats would talk to whenever they were in trouble, then I learned that it was actually the city Houston, Texas. "Houston, we have a problem"

Danie

When I was in elementary school, we did lots of things in the computer lab on our Apple Macintoshes. Whenever we could create a new file on them, the file would always be named "Ulited (pronounced YOU-lit-ed)." I thought that there was a giant software company called Ulited out there that made all the programs we used on the computer, and so, whenever we made a new file, the file would be named Ulited in their honor. Although all the files seemed to be credited to different companies, I knew in the end they were all owned by Ulited Corp, who quietly put their mark on all these products by inserting their name into the default file names.

I think I was 11 or 12 before I finally realized that the filename said "Untitled."

Freezair