Sunday, June 09, 2019

20 Years Ago on AOL.com: June 9, 1999 -- Heat Wave, Heather Graham

June 9, 1999: The East Coast heat wave continued:
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For the PM update, we went with another damned Austin Powers 2 promo.

We also see that the Shortcuts column, just keeps growing and growing, with two different movie promos (Austin Powers and Star Wars), two separate car-buying promos (one for new cars, one for used, presumably because we had different sponsors for each), and a dumping ground for other miscellaneous crap:
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[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.]

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