20 Years Ago on AOL.com: May 17, 1999 -- Investing 101; Star Wars; Netanyahu Defeated

May 17, 1999: We started off the work week with tips on how to pick stocks (it's easy, as long as you're in a bubble); the Shopping promo features sunglasses:

For the PM update, we went back to Star Wars. Also note the My News headline: "Barak Defeats Netanyahu in Israel." Guess that's the last we'll hear from that guy.

[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.]