Sunday, November 03, 2019

#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom: Nov. 3, 1999 -- Airfare Sale Ends Today; Pokemon and Pikachu


November 3, 1999: So we don't have the full context of the page, but apparently yesterday's Xerox murders didn't even rate a top promo treatment. Instead, we went back to airfare sales (the first travel promo since the EgyptAir crash a few days before):1999_11_03
For the PM update, we kept the red color scheme and went again with Pokemon (we didn't bother with any accent marks); of the Pokemon promos we'd done (and there weren't that many), I don't think we used any Pokemon other than Pikachu:
1999_11_03a

[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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