20 Years Ago on AOL.com: August 5, 1999 -- Drought of '99; Back to School

August 5, 1999: So the summer heatwave hit actual drought status for parts of the US:

For the PM update, we went with a Back to School feature, with a TV Style Gallery (an excuse to post celebrity photos, in this case, Jennifer Love Hewitt in Party of Five), as well as two web chats (which I think meant we were light on actual content):

[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.]