‘What’s a childhood computer myth that people actually believed?’ – 22 people who are still mortally afraid of pressing CTRL + BREAK

12.

‘In the early 80s when I was in the 2nd grade I decided to use my family’s new Apple IIe to write one of my homework assignments. My teacher made me get a note from my mom saying the computer didn’t do it for me. That used to be a story I told about how people believed ridiculous things about computers, but now it’s a real thing.’
–AKA-Pseudonym

13.

‘Blowing on the Nintendo cartridge would make it work again (spoiler – just reinserting it scraped off some of the crud and made the contacts work).’
–starquakegamma

14.

‘I remember back in like ’94 when we first started using computers at elementary school (not really using, just playing games) someone told me if you press the Apple button the computer would explode. I was terrified of that button.’
–groucho_barks

15.

‘That having a cactus near your monitor will shield you from radiation emitted by your monitor.’
–IvD707

16.

‘You have to shut down properly or the computer will explode.’
–carolinetvd

17.

‘That we would no longer need paper in an office. Decades on and I am filling in more paperwork than ever.’
–sanctum9

18.

”Those games you installed [from retail CD-ROMs] gave the computer a virus!’

No, Dad, it probably came from one of the six Internet Explorer toolbars, Bonzi Buddy, or the animated cursors you downloaded from sketchy web sites.’
–Adjective_Noun1312

19.

‘Storing floppy discs in the refrigerator would prolong their life by ‘keeping them fresh’.’
–quietly_jousting_s

20.

‘I thought deleting a desktop icon deleted the entire program.’
–Temporary-Let1068

21.

‘That hackers were out there prowling for innocent family computers to hack and destroy your life ala ‘The Net’ movie.’
–Curleysound

22.

‘That I have to stop whatever’s using the USB port before yanking it out, lol.’
–Shortbus_Playboy

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