#20YearsAgoOnAOLcom: Dec. 18, 1999 -- Get in the Holiday Spirit

December 18, 1999: A week before Christmas, we finally broke with shopping as the primary action for the promos, leading with a candy cane landscape and party food and tips; shopping search and gift suggestions were still there of course, just moved down a bit:

[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.]