20 Years Ago on AOL.com: May 4, 1999 -- Mother's Day Gifts; Midwest Tornadoes Kill Dozens

May 4, 1999: What started out with routine promos for Mother's Day, PC buying, and online CD shopping quickly turned into multiple updates for a series of tornadoes in Oklahoma that killed 36 people:

We got the news from the previous day, and kept the tornadoes in the lead for the rest of the day:

Here's a minor headline tweak as we added a photo gallery:

For the PM update, we switched out the photo to show some of the wreckage:

 

[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.]