Once I got 100 pennies from my parents for some school project thing, which I got back after we were done. I was stunned to learn I could only get 2 candy bars with 100 coins (now it would be only enough for 1 :pudge:)
When I was 5 years old I thought sticking two Playstation 2 discs in the to disc tray would let me play both games at once. All I heard were loud scratching sounds and nearly ruined one of the discs.
My father used to watch The Andy Griffith Show with me, which was black and white. When I was very young, I actually thought life prior to the 60s and 70s, when color TV became more common, did not actually have any color. One day it suddenly but slowly appeared, because the color in the 60s wasn't very good.
Deleting shortcuts to programs actually deleted the program.
i have a distinct memory of my dad telling me that girls didn't have belly buttons and me beleiving him for a while, but he denies it whenever i bring it up
I used to think I was straight
I thought being an adult would be awesome
But its not
[QUOTE=FDiz;50080902]Deleting shortcuts to programs actually deleted the program.[/QUOTE]
Isn't this how it worked on the old Mac OS's (7-ish)? I remember back in school you had to drag the CD icon to the trash to eject it which seemed impressively counter-intuitive to me.
[QUOTE=FDiz;50080902]Deleting shortcuts to programs actually deleted the program.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Snowmew;50082405]Isn't this how it worked on the old Mac OS's (7-ish)? I remember back in school you had to drag the CD icon to the trash to eject it which seemed impressively counter-intuitive to me.[/QUOTE]
This was very real for me, or rather my little brother, on our Windows 3.1 machine. He was four, and he'd click once on shortcuts and then hit enter to launch them. Sometimes he'd miss and hit delete, and then he'd hit enter to "get it right the second time".
After deleting all the shortcuts to his games (we hadn't figured out what happened), he figured out how to locate the games manually in their folders in File Manager. This went fine for a while.
Then his games stopped working, one by one. Because he was clicking on the exe and hitting enter. And, yup, sometimes he'd miss. And hit delete. And then hit enter.
My little brother systematically deleted the .exe files for all his games over the course of a week.
I think the weirdest thing for me was using my friend's OS9 machine and not knowing how to eject the floppy because the only thing I [I]didn't[/I] want to do was drag it into the trash (I [I]wanted[/I] the files on the floppy, damnit).
Up until I was 6 I thought Christmas was on the 26th.
i thought that eugene wasn't a name given at birth but if you became important enough then you'd be renamed eugene
I used to think my computer that I had up to 2010 that had 1.5 gb of ddr1 ram was high end
I went to the YMCA when I was like 12 and me and 3 other guys started a conspiracy theory that everyone who was running it would destroy the world and so we plotted to destroy the YMCA by making cardboard swords.
[QUOTE=Citrus705;50081343]I thought being an adult would be awesome
But its not[/QUOTE]I used to think that at some point I'd die and a different version of me who knew how to do adult stuff would take over. I'm still waiting though.
That CD players or disk readers of any kind could read anything. I once made a CD out of paper, wrote song titles on it and expected it to work flawlessly.
And one time, I crammed a pamphlet into the hard disk A: drive of my cousin's computer and just assumed the text on the paper would "translate" perfectly to the PC. My cousin was absolutely livid.
This is kind of generic but I did genuinely think you could put money into a computer and buy stuff online, I just never had enough to try. Then when I found out shoving dollars into the C.D. slot didn't work, I wondered why no one has made it a thing yet until I was at least 13.
Also I thought I could get lucky and enter in random credit card information any buy something with it. I had no concept that I could really fuck someone up if the .0001% came through and it worked.
I thought planes were UFOs at night because you could only see the blinking lights
I thought people on the TV could see me just because I could see them
i used to curse a lot and me and my younger brother would yell "cunt cunt cunt" all the time everywhere
because we thought it means something cool
until one day my mom told me what it is
I thought Jurassic Park was real, and thought the movie was a documentary of how it failed. Sorta wish it was true to this day :v:
When I was tiny I literally thought that farts and sewage was used in the production of nuclear bombs and in some of my drawings you can even see cities where the sewer pipes lead into a "toxic stuff factory" and piped it into a nuclear power plant then into an elder care center because I thought that old people got cancer because they seasoned the food at the center with nuclear waste.
Genuinely thought that dogs have their own language pretty much like Chinese, with barks being something like hieroglyphs, so a single bark could possibly mean a lot of stuff. Even tried to decipher barks, but failed and hardly avoided getting bitten.
[QUOTE=4444;50084963]I used to think that at some point I'd die and a different version of me who knew how to do adult stuff would take over. I'm still waiting though.[/QUOTE]
And maybe you are that other person who has already killed and replaced the former you and now pretends that they don't know anything about it. Jesus christ, can't trust anyone these days.
When I was much smaller, I used to think the number of free slots for shortcuts on the Desktop was the remaining number of programs you could install.
I also believed buying a bigger computer screen would let you install more programs, because of the additional screen space.
Parents used fat shortcut icons so I begged for a bigger computer screen because I wanted them to install more games...
I thought magicians actually figured out how to cut people in half and put them back together without telling everyone else.
I used to think black people were white people who tanned a lot and that it was possible for average people to swim over to Denmark. (I can see Copenhagen from where I live)
I used to think that the higher you could count, the smarter you were. I have a funny memory of trying to convince my parents I was ready for school because I could count to 10 really fast.
[QUOTE=Mr.Brown;50085929]i used to curse a lot and me and my younger brother would yell "cunt cunt cunt" all the time everywhere
because we thought it means something cool
until one day my mom told me what it is[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;lj07rDpYmbY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj07rDpYmbY[/video]
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Up until the age of like 5 or 6 I thought the only reason the earth was spinning was because people were walking on it. When my mother tried crushing this argument by saying "Well what about people walking the other direction?" I explained it as more people walking in one direction than the other.
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[QUOTE=Zovox;50085727]I thought people on the TV could see me just because I could see them[/QUOTE]
I used to think that whenever I turned on the TV, the people on the TV were actually [I]inside[/I] the TV. And whenever I shut the TV off they went on coffee break.
When I was young I was obsessed with space. I remember being like 4-6 years old constantly pointing at planes in the sky asking if it was a spaceship.
When I was four I believed I would grow hair on my face and dick when I turned five. I cried and ran to my parents when I found out.
I also thought that the tooth fairy had really big feet, when really my dad would "sign" the card by pressing the bottom of his closed hand in glitterglue before drawing 5 toes on it. Pretty good forgery, if I do say so myself.
There was a time when I thought sex was illegal.
Or at least illegal for people who aren't married.
I mean, in the movies and TV and shit, people were always doing it in secret and hiding it from everyone and saying shit about how they shouldn't have done it. Why would they do all that if it's not illegal?
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