Tuesday, November 27, 2018

20 Years Ago on AOL.com: Nov. 27, 1998 -- When Black Friday Comes

November 27, 1998: Post-Thanksgiving content, with shopping, fitness-shaming, and more shopping. I don't think Black Friday was quite as stampede-y back then (and Cyber Monday definitely wouldn't be a thing for a few more years).

The main promo features the requisite Steely Dan reference. Also, I forgot until I saw the pencil mark, but in the preceding week (Nov. 20), we changed the teeny-tiny Shopping column from a generic shopping cart/basket to... is that supposed to be a turkey? Who can tell at that size... from here it looks like a squirrel in a box. Anyway, the pencil mark says "X-mas tree," so that's what you'll see there soon:

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[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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