20 Years Ago on AOL.com: June 10, 1999 -- AOL Hometown, Serbs Withdraw, Ginger Spice Solo

June 10, 1999: We started off with AOL Hometown, with an almost-but-not-quite ad jackpot in the lower right. The My News headlines references the Serb withdrawal from Kosovo...

 

...which we followed up with in a mid-morning update:

For the PM update, we went with an exclusive preview of Geri Halliwell's solo CD debut, for the world just wasn't spicy enough:

[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.]