20 Years Ago on AOL.com: May 2, 1999 -- John Elway Retires; US Soldiers Freed

May 2, 1999:  Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway officially announced his retirement; he was nice enough to tee it up before the weekend so we could pre-program it. If that wasn't enough, we had a mixed bag of news coming out of Yugoslavia...

...with the three U.S. soldiers who had been captured by Serb forces getting released, while 2 NATO jets crashed:

[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.]