The world was black and white before colour photographs and colour TV

When I was about five years old... I always thought that the world was really black and white in our past generations because pictures from that time period were in black and white.

Anon

I used to see all my fathers photographs from 'the old days' in black and white, and only later on see pictures with color. In my naiveté asked him when color was infused into the world?

Anon

When I was little I thought the world a long long time ago was only in black and white. I believed we invented color over time and that is why the world is so colorful! It also explained why old movies were in black and white.

Anon

I used to believe that before a certain time, the whole world was black and white, not just the tvs. I was always baffled about how they got the sky blue, and thought they must have sprayed heaps of spray paint up in the air.

Aberdeen, Scotland

I used to believe people that people back then were black and white and couldn't talk.

Anon

until the 60's- the whole world was black and white, and it got colorful because of the gas that came out from cars and factories

keren

when I was little I used to believe that in old times the world was black and white because when i saw an old video footage on the tv or an old photograph it was black and white.

Ov

When I first saw a black-and-white picture, I thought the world used to be black-and-white, and it changed before I was born.

Anon

Since all television before a certain time was in black and white, I used to think that that time period itself was colorless until some genius came along and invented color.

Dylan

when i was a kid i used to watch an old black and white tv and i though that before i was born color didn't existed and they had only invented them for real life but they where working on getting tv's with color too

Stupid stupid kid

When I was younger I thought that black and white movies were really what people looked like in the past, and we had just evolved to color.

Anon

Having seen old black and white movies I used to think that the entire world used to be in black and white, like the universe went through a fundamental shift and color magically appeared. It wasn't until later that I realized they were just old cameras

Jericho

When I was little, I used to think my grandparents lived in a black-and-white world from the black-and-white pictures they showed me, and somehow the world turned colorful in the 1980s.

Anon

I use to believe that the world use to be black and white then became color in the 60s

bengeemon

Because of movies I used to believe that everything was black and white in the past.

Anon

i believed that people in the old days could only see in black and whit because thats how their movies were

cormac

I used to believe that the world was black and white when my parents were growing up because of black and white TV shows.

Anon

When I was little I thought everything from the early 20th century was in black and white like literally if I traveled back in time everything the people the cars the stores would all be b&w.

Anon

When I was young I would see old shows like "I love Lucy" and "The Beverly Hillbilly's" and thought that back then the world was black and white and color wasn't invented yet.

Maddie

I thought that old tv shows were in black and white because it was before there was color in the world.

Anon