20 Years Ago on AOL.com: Feb. 3, 1999 -- Hometown AOL and Valentine's 1999

February 3, 1999: In the morning spot, we switched to the familiar purple and gold Hometown AOL promo:

For the PM update (no headline because it was a preview), we featured Valentine's Day gifts, as well as Black History Month and Computing:

[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.]