Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025) • Hacker News Board

Sometimes it's just amazing to look at how much dedication someone put into a list like this, and wonder what they do with this information. It's inspiring (to me at least.)

In a park near my hotel, there's an elderly gentleman who uses a giant brush to paint calligraphy on concrete walkways every morning. He paints it with water - so it gradually evaporates over the course of the next hour or so. I admire his work in the same way I admire this web page.

Re: Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

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Post by wiseowise » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 12:26 PM UTC

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #3

If people are watching your work closely enough to document errors in it, and they care enough to make a wiki page, you’re doing truly great work.

Preach.

And now compare to modern endless stream of junk that flows into oblivion.

Re: Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

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Post by tt_dev » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 12:35 PM UTC

Hats off to you sir

Re: Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

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Post by gosub100 » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 1:51 PM UTC

pjerem wrote: post #2

But how ?

I am guessing someone who works at the station shared some internal documents.

I remember in the mid 90s watching Nickelodeon before school and they played an entire 30m block of commercials instead of a program. They probably lost the tape or something.

Re: Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

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Post by haritha-j » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC

TIL that showing a screenbug on the screen was an absolute pain. Also TIL what a screenbug is.

Re: Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

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Post by weinzierl » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:08 PM UTC

haritha-j wrote: post #8

TIL that showing a screenbug on the screen was an absolute pain. Also TIL what a screenbug is.

TIL that a dog is a bug

Re: Cartoon Network channel errors (1995 – 2025)

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Post by weinzierl » Mon, Dec 22, 2025, 2:11 PM UTC

gosub100 wrote: post #7

pjerem wrote: post #2

But how ?

I am guessing someone who works at the station shared some internal documents. I remember in the mid 90s watching Nickelodeon before school and they played an entire 30m block of commercials instead of a program. They probably lost the tape or something.

I can imagine that it used to be valuable information for advertisers or respectively for the channel as preparation for advertisers complaints.