technology

I thought if you point the video camera at the TV then both the video camera and the TV will explode.

Anon

My sister thought that she could video me by simply inserting the VHS tape into the VCR sideways.

Anon

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

Tyler

When I was twelve I thought that if I took a diamond (it was a very SMALL diamond by the way) and somehow be able to fix it on top of the hole on my rocket launcher toy, I would be able to construct a powerful signal beam.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeah, what?

Never was good with technology

When I was a kid, I thought that when I turned off the computer, the characters from the computer games gathered around a bonfire and talked to each other about what I did to them the whole day.

Anon

I used to think that satellites were launched from satellite dishes.

Mike

I used to believe that I could have been born as anything. I was glad I wasn't born as a table for example, because that would be boring. Sometimes I wished I had been born a computer, because it would be fun to play video games all day. but then I realised, a computer can't move from its spot either, and can only do whatever the person using it says. then I felt sorry for my computer, so I would go play more games on it so it wouldn't get lonely.

x

I used to believe that in order to top up a mobile phone you had to open the back and put actual bank notes or coins in it, and I thought that as you were calling or texting someone there was a little mouth in the phone that sucked up all the money.

Madeleine

Yay, I am so delighted to find out that I am not the only idiot that thought a piece of paper went in to the fax, de-materialised (like on Star Trek) and re formed again at the other end. Mind you, this was back in the 60's when I first saw a fax on a TV show. The cops were sending an identikit picture of a criminal to another state - I was convinced that it was only a matter of time before people would travel this way!!

Lee

I joined the navy at 18 to be on a submarine. The recruiter talked me into choosing nuclear power plant operator for my job-path and I thought it sounded pretty cool even though I knew zero about nuclear power. The next day in high-school I'm telling a friend about joining and running the sub with nuclear power and stuff and he says to me "oh, so they don't use propellers anymore?", and I'm like "no, they use nuclear power now." I guess I was picturing it to be some sort of jet propulsion type thing with 'nuclear power' shooting out the back of the boat to push it through the water. After boot-camp I started the classroom training and I was a little dissapointed by the low-tech reality of nuclear power. For those who don't know all it does is boil water to create steam for turbines.
On another note about the navy, I didn't realize until boot-camp that wood isn't used to build ships. I knew the outside was steel but I figured the inside must be at least partially wood to reduce the weight. What did I know, I was from Nebraska and had never even seen the ocean!

Anon

When I was 7 my brother told me that when the space of the computer runs out it will explode.

Sam

At the time i was in like, kindergarten. one day one of my feriends told me that somehow, watches got powered by sucking the power out of diamonds. i was amazed at this fact until about 8 years old saw my dad replacing a battery from his watch.

Anon

when i was little, i liked to watch my dad get ready in the mornings because he always prickled me with his day's growth of stubble. one morning while he was shaving, he "plugged" the electric plug into my upper arm, and pressed the battery button. the shaver worked, and i thought i was getting electrified. later that day at the grocery store, my mom noticed my anxious face and asked me what was wrong. i cried, and told her that my arm had been feeling numb all day.

my dad got yelled at after they laughed at me, but i needed a few more demonstrations before i tearfully agreed that my arm was in no serious danger of falling off.

Anon

I grew up in a household that was rather behind-the-times, technologically. When I was in 7th grade (1995-96), the only computer we owned was a hopelessly obsolete old MacIntosh.

So one day in Social Studies class, the teacher asked, "Do any of you know who the richest person in the world is?"

A boy answered, "Bill Gates. He's got, like, fifty billion dollars."

"And who is Bill Gates?"

"The guy who invented Windows."

The guy who invented windows. My first thought was, "Wow! No wonder he's so rich-- I've never seen a house without windows."

My second (slightly more intelligent) thought was, "Wait... The guy who invented windows is still alive? How OLD must he be?!"

I forget how long it took me to realize they were talking about the operating system. I'm glad I didn't say anything out loud-- otherwise they never would've let me move up to 8th grade.

Katherine

When I was about three we got our first VCR, and the way my parents unveiled it I believed my dad had built it himself.

Anon

I used to believe that if you timed the microwave for more than three minutes for ANYTHING, the microwave would explode.

Nneoma

I used to think that calculators worked because someone had preprogrammed all the answers into them ahead of time, and I pictured people in factories programming all the answers in, one calculator at a time. When they came out with calculators that could display more digits, that only made things more amazing because of how many more answers they had to program!

Ariel

For a few months, I used to believe that everytime you hit the space bar, more space is generated in the sky and outer space. Maybe it is true, because nobody knows how big outer space and the sky is.

Pachisu

I believed that I had invented reef knots.

Phil

My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.

Anon