technology

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

I used to believe that scientists were robots and they had some kind of chip in their brain.

Anon

I used to think that when you put in a video, the people in it had to really quickly run and start acting it again. It got really confsing for me when I realised that several people could watch the same film at the same time. my mum used to tell me that that wasn't right, but i only believed her when I was about 7!

Hannah

I believed that any time my family did anything requiring electricity or fuel - turn on the stove, answer the telephone, drive the car - it was processed and governed by a giant central computer somewhere with technicians running around and big flashing lights. I was never quite clear on whether they controlled things, or just monitored them, but I knew surely they were required to turn on the oven and the telephone and the car in the first place.

Appelonia

I used to think that html stood for hotmail and shtml stood for shitmail

Anonymous

When I was twenty-two years old, I heard that A. R. Ammons worked in the biological glass industry. I was fascinated because I thought it meant you could make windows out of bacteria or jellyfish.

ineffable f

I used to believe the speakers recorded my voice, not a built in microphone. I tried this on every speaker I owned and thought that I only had luck with some of them.

Anon

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".

Vicki J.

When I was young, my mother jokingly told me that cameras shoot out laser beams.
I believed that they would instantly desinigrate anything they hit so I was afraid of cameras until I was about 10.

Jeff-R

I am pretty autistic, so there wasn't much that I had trouble understanding, but I still used to think that the little black squares on circuit boards had glass in them (which isn't too far from the truth), and that the circuit boards themselves were made from some kind of cardboard.

noah

Once, when my dad was showing me some old computer equipment, I picked up an Ethernet adapter and asked him what it was. "That's a network card," he said, so whenever I saw a circuit board, I always referred to it as a network card.

flarn2006

When I learned from Jon Lee in S Club 7 that tanning beds are meant to be unhealthy because they can burn your skin and give you cancer, or even kill you if you get stuck inside and burnt to death, I thought they were just another term for deckchairs, before I knew what they actually were. Would make more sense to call them machines instead of beds. I kept thinking 'why is it bad to lie on a deckchair with a towel, everyone does that in Summer!'

Natasha

When I was seven, my dad went on about how liquid made computers short out, so when a character in a YouTube video I was watching started to cry, I was worried that'd make the computer short out!

Anon

Iused to belive that the key ctrl was short for citral

Teddy bear claire

I used 2 believe that because our computer was soo slow and from what my dad told me that the internet asked every site ru .(insert url here)! i still kinda think that 2 this day

kokykomputerkid

I thought music was made by computers until I was about 14. Somebody writes the lyrics then they put it in a computer and it makes the music. It made perfect sense to me.

Anon

i used to believe that www meant world wide willy until a few months later when i came across a frind who correced me and said it meant world wide web

bethey

When I was a child i used to believe you had to say 'cheese' to any camera type thing including the video camera. So the camera would face to me and I would say cheese for 5 minutes until I ran out of breath.

Vanessa

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.

anonymous

I used to believe tasers were just tranquilizer guns that use electricity instead of drugs. I didn't realize that electricity had to be applied directly to the head to cause unconsciousness.

Anon