20 Years Ago on AOL.com: Mar. 1, 1999 -- Free Tax Advice and Madonna

March 1, 1999: We lead with free tax advice in the morning (and a completely 100% accurate depiction of how we did our taxes back before the turn of the millennium). Also note the reference to the "You must pay the rent!" "But I can't pay the rent!" etc. melodrama:

For the PM update, we went with Madonna leading a celebrity fashion gallery.

[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.]