technology

I used to think that I could put a audio tape into the VCR (even though the audio tape is too small) and it will still work. I once tried it and it broke.

Anon

I used to think that if you want to write programs in machine code, you need two monitors for your computer: The ordinary one and a machine code monitor.

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 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 used to believe that to use a microphone you had to put a special device in your mouth which made your voice very quiet so that the microphone could 'pick up' the sound. I think this belief came from when I went to a circus when I was younger and the ringmaster leant over to speak to someone next to him without using the microphone and I couldn't hear his voice (even though he was about 25 foot away!)

Garry

One time I was trying to record my voice on the computer so I could play it back. So i talked but it didn't work. So then I got my mother and all she did was laugh and ask why are u talking into the speaker.(13 years old)

Jenn

I used to believe my computer monitor had a van inside. This started because I asked my dad what made the whirring noise. He said it had a fan... I said "Really? A real van?", "Yes." I was convinced for nearly ten years that computers had nothing except a little blue van in them. It never occured to me to ask what it was for.

Nicholas Wordsworth

I used to belive that making a tv was as easy as cennecting a TV antenna to a wire, connecting a little light bolb at the other end of the wire then putting a peice of glass in front of the light bolb when turned on and, WALLA you would see your favorite TV channel projected behind the glass.

Andrew

While doing the dishes one night my older brother told my younger one, who was about 7 or 8, how ships stayed afloat. In the bottom of all boats they had two big balloons. When they were full, they would float, when they were empty, they sank. My younger brother believed it until he was about 13, he read a picture book which was all about submarines and boats.

Tay

Where I live in Sweden, there is an ice hockey team is named "HV71". When I was around 11-12 years old, my grandmother on my mother's side told me that it was two teams, "'Huskqvarna" and "Vätterstad", who merged in the year 1971 to become HV71. I was born in 1982. One day in the spring of 1994, my dad bought me an old computer from another. The computer was named "Commodore 64", and I thought it was introduced in 1964.

Johan

I grew up believing that the microwave would blow up if someone put metal in it. Thanks to the Myth Busters, I now know this isn't true... But when I was a kid, I'd either run out of the house screaming or run to my parents' bedroom (the furtherst room away from the kitchen [my bedroom was on the other side of the wall from the microwave, so I couldn't hide there!]) and hide, waiting for either the microwave or the whole house to blow up whenever my mom microwaved a bowl of soup with a spoon in it.

F.B.

I used to believe that if someone took a picture of another person, the person in the picture would stay in that position/place forever.

RedshoesGreenlaces

I used to think that when you had to give your 'daytime telephone number', it meant that your number would change when people called you at night!

Anon

I always though little men lived in the cats eyes in the road, also in the tellie - actually in most electrical appliances

tracy g

yo pensaba k dentro de los radiocasstes habia unos gnomos paequeños k cantaban la canción.

indar gorri

I thought every record player would automatically play a record when you start the player. This was a feature of the record player we had. I never thought any player would require a person to manually put the needle on the record. (Yes I remember records, even though I was born in 1977.)

I hate to admit it, but I was scared of the record player we had. It clicked whenever someone started to play a record and the sound frightened me. (By design, it was supposed to click.)

Matt Thiel

when i was little, my dad would tell me our computer had a virus. as soon as i heard that, i never touched a computer again because i thought the virus would catch me and i could die. Very sad, but true!

mary

when i was little i used to believe that electronics like comp. printers and radios had little people in side them working.I found out it wasnt true when i broke open the radio oops!:0

sammi

I USED TO THINK THAT FAX'S WENT UNDER THE GROUND IN TUNNELS AND OUT THE OTHER SIDE - untill i was about 16 and a mate told me the truth - THE SHAME!

jeni hall

When I was a child I believed that in the future we will have flying cars, and that we could travel to the moon.

Mishell Padilla