September 23, 1999: Thursday saw a purposefully repetitive "Fall Fares Fall" headline; that was about as much room for wordplay that we had in the limited space. The My News headline references the
Mars Climate Orbiter crash -- you know, the one caused by the mixing of metric and non-metric units:
For the PM update, we went with the
Friends Season 6 premiere; Thursdays were still very much "Must See TV." Also, in the search bar, we added NEW! in big, all-cap red letters, though I'm not sure why. (We also updated the Shop@AOL column text header, removing the little shopping bag image and adding .com):
[
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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