November 13, 1998: Travel holiday bargains featuring a
Strange Brew reference in the lead spot; it was also Friday the 13th (not sure what that has to do with clothes shopping), and the movie weekend promo name checks Brad Pitt vs. Jennifer Love Hewitt in Movies; it was a pretty oblique (but space-compliant) way to reference
Meet Joe Black and
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
Also, you can see the updated Web Center column listings, with the
order I'd penciled in on Nov. 10: Entertainment, Sports, Travel, Personal Finance, Computing, Local, News, and then all the rest. This was probably a listing based on editorial (or was it business--wasn't really a difference back then) priority, not actual usage:
[
Series note: In the late 1990s, I programmed the content for the AOL.com home page,
which relaunched with a new design on July 14, 1998.
I printed screencaps and saved them. 20 years later, I'm scanning them
in and posting them with a little commentary under the tag
#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom.]
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