20 Years Ago on AOL.com: July 5, 1999 -- AOL Hometown for the Holiday

July 5, 1999: For the Independence Day holiday observation, we went with AOL Hometown, exhorting members to build web pages, and showing off top sites (not sure if or how we were highlighting member content at the time):

[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.]