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September 2025

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September 25, 2025

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You Can't Do That on Television

Les Lye You Can't Do That on Television YCDTOT CJOH Retro TV

Americans may know it from Nickelodeon, but YCDTOT was based in Ottawa. Produced and aired locally starting in 1979 (and through to 1990) on CJOH-TV. It was a low budget show that did sketch comedy oriented towards kids and teens - and was mostly hosted by local kids, save for a few adults who

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September 16, 2025

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Telling time (and date) by TV shows

time TV Thought Snippits

Kids will not know about telling time by TV show. As a kid, I think I may have actually learned what time it was by what TV show was playing. Or- I knew that if such and such cartoon was over, it was time to go to school. Or if the national anthem came on, it was the middle of the night... or on

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September 12, 2025

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FreeNet and a little on the early internet

FreeNet NCF National Capital Freenet 1990s online dial-up WWW

Its really odd for most anyone now to think about a time when the internet wasn't omnipresent in our lives. Getting 'online' back in the day didn't mean getting on the World Wide Web necessarily. Connecting to a local community service via dial-up was more common. Enter Freenets. Free access to

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