#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom: Oct. 12, 1999 -- Invest Smarter; Build Your Own Web Site; Pakistan Coup

October 12, 1999: We started out with investing resources and personal finance news, fitting the bubble times we were in.

Also note the ad for "iParty.com" in the ad block; it was an online party supplies store. It would later be bought out by Party City:

For the PM update, we went back to the Build Your Own Home Page promo, in blue once again. In the My News headline, we learn about the 1999 Pakistan coup:

[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.]