Thursday, September 05, 2019

#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom: Sept. 5, 1999 -- Are You Ready for Back to School Parochialism?

September 5, 1999: For this Sunday before Labor Day, we lead with a blonde presumably 20-something actress portraying a teenager in some teen-focused TV show. No idea which one.

The first link is "Back to School," which was probably a bit more parochial in retrospect: at the time, schools in Virginia usually didn't start after Labor Day, due to a law popularly known as the Kings Dominion Law (it was repealed in 2019) -- there's a good chance that the rest of the country was like, "What are you talking about, we've already been back to school for weeks":
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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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