#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom: Nov. 9, 1999 -- Free Web Chat; Your Family Tree

November 9, 1999: We went with AIM 3.0 and Free Web Chat. Not much more to say. In the My News headlines, we see that the EgyptAir flight recorder was found:

For the PM update, we went with a retro genealogy photo:

[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.]