Friday, February 08, 2019

20 Years Ago on AOL.com: Feb. 8, 1999 -- Tax Time and AIM Sweeps

February 8, 1999: The lead morning promo featured tax preparation help, along with Hometown AOL and Computing. In the My News headlines, we see a reference to the death of Jordan's King Hussein, who'd died shortly before.
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In the PM update, we switched to the AIM sweepstakes, while the My News headlines switched to King Hussein's burial and the closing arguments in the Clinton impeachment trial:
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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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