Friday, October 04, 2019

#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom: Oct. 4, 1999 -- Watching the Fed; New PC Games (Can you name that goblin?)

October 4, 1999: We started off the workweek with the ever-lovely Alan Greenspan leading a stock market-focused lineup (the My News headlines reference waiting for a Fed interest rate decision):
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For the PM update, we went with a PC games lineup, including some sort of orc or goblin for a game I don't recognize. Also, a My News headline references the beginning of the Supreme Court's new term with Ruth Bader Ginsburg back on the bench; the Notorious RBG had had colon cancer surgery the previous month:
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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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