November 2 1999: For the morning lineup, we went green for picking stocks, finding top mutual funds, and tracking the stock market. (Remember, we were inside a still-expanding bubble and had just announced a 2-for-1 stock split, so the market was on all our minds.)
For the PM update, we went with new music, leading with Mariah Carey and the release of
Rainbow; we also referenced Jewel clips and photos. In the My News headlines, we also referenced a
mass shooting at a Xerox Corporation building in Hawaii:
It was also Election Day, though it was an off-year one so it wasn't a big deal.
[
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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