Sunday, March 31, 2019

20 Years Ago on AOL.com: Mar. 31, 1999 -- Investment Tips, Headless Torso Beefcake, Missing US Soldiers

March 31, 1999: We started off the day with investment tips, plus AOL White Pages and flowers:
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For the PM update, we switched to headless torso beefcake stock art. Which should have been it for the day, except...
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Three US soldiers went missing in Yugoslavia. As it turned out, "missing" meant "captured."
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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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