Crazy Ideas That Made Sense When You Were A Kid

No, man, that just means they’d be really good at it!

I beleived and still do that my stuffed animals and dolls came alive at night to play and dance in my room when I was asleep.
I have shared my experiences with my children and will re-arrange their animals sometimes in the middle of the night.

I hate to comment on the ads, but:

“GO, AND TELL YOUR PEOPLE THAT I YAM WOT I YAM SENT YOU.”

I like your kid, Pábitel!

My parents subscribed to AOL as soon as it was released for Windows. My six-year-old mind was immediately taken by this ‘internet’ thing, but beyond my father’s explanation*, it lets computers talk to each other, I didn’t understood how it worked.

Then when watching an old movie it dawned on me. The internet uses the phone lines, right? And it’s a new technology. Movies have taught me that when telephones were new, there was an operator in a little office somewhere you had to manually connect the calls. So, obviously, this new “internet” thing worked similarly. If I clicked on my inbox, then some guy at a computer in the AOL offices saw my mouse move and click there. He then found the particular cable my modem connected through, and plugged it into the proper socket in the wall.

*My father is an engineer and a geek. Asking him how such-and-such technology works means you’ll get a twenty-minute college-level lecture on the technicalities of it.