20 Years Ago on AOL.com: Apr. 20, 1999 -- A High School Shooting Becomes... Columbine

April 20, 1999: Tuesday started out as a regular day; the morning lineup was a bright and sunny weather forecast promo, with market news (that to the previous day's stock movements but still managed to sound generic), and pet shopping:

Around mid-morning, we got word of a shooting at a school in Colorado. I seem to recall doing the content update and going to lunch not soon after.

By the time I got back from lunch, there were more reports of what had happened. And that's when Columbine became... Columbine.

[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.]