What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?

Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 473 points –

I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

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I started learning BASIC when I was 7 and used to think that the POKE command was a magical incantation that could do anything. Like you could make an entire game with a single POKE. You just had to find the right one.

You were only part wrong; POKE is magic that can do almost anything. You just have to call it a bunch.

At least, on 6502 systems, in the days of static memory layout operating systems, it was.

What about PEEK and DATA? You definitely need some PEEK and DATA statements too.