Terms of use

Today In 1999 is an independent archival publication. It is the companion site to the account @Todayin1999 on X. It is not a newspaper that was issued in 1999. It is not owned by, endorsed by, or affiliated with the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, or any other news organization whose name may appear as a place-name in a dateline.

The site presents historical news, sports, markets, weather, television listings, and related material as they stood on the date shown. Copy is written in the register of a newspaper of that day. A calendar lets you open back issues. Some features (weather for a place, clippings, a clock, a count of readers at the desk) run in the browser.

Nothing on this site is investment advice, legal advice, medical advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security, currency, or ticket. Closing quotes, scores, and weather figures are published for historical reference only. Do not rely on them for a transaction.

We aim to report the public record of the date in question. Archives conflict. We do not warrant that every fact, name, score, or quotation is complete or free of error. If you believe a line is wrong, write the desk. Material corrections will be noted.

Still photographs used with stories are AI-generated illustrations produced for this desk. They are not 1999 wire photographs and must not be treated as documentary evidence of the events described. Each cut is marked: “AI illustration. Not a 1999 wire photograph.”

Original headlines, text, arrangement, software, and the Today In 1999 name and mark are the publisher’s. You may not copy the edition wholesale, frame the site, or remove credits. Historical facts are not owned by anyone. Quotations from public figures are used as reportage. Third-party names (programmes, films, teams, companies) remain their owners’.

You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to read the site for personal, non-commercial use, to print an article for yourself, to clip it in your browser, and to share a hyperlink. You may not:

• scrape, bulk-download, or harvest the archive;
• use the copy or images to train a machine-learning model;
• resell, republish, or syndicate the file without written permission;
• present the site as a contemporaneous 1999 newspaper or as another publisher;
• interfere with the operation of the site or attempt to gain unauthorised access.

You are responsible for how you use the site and for any device from which you open it. Clippings and preferences stored in your browser are yours to keep or delete. There is no user account. See Privacy.

Links to X, weather archives, and other services are provided for convenience. Their terms and privacy policies apply when you leave this site. We are not responsible for those services.

The site is provided “as is” and “as available.” We may change, suspend, or withdraw pages, features, or the whole edition without notice.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the publisher and anyone who works on this desk are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss, or for any loss of data, profit, or goodwill, arising from your use of the site or from any error or omission in the archive. Nothing in these terms excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud, or any liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

We may revise these terms. The date at the top of this page will change when we do. Your continued use after a revision is acceptance of the revised terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of Denmark, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force.

Questions about these terms: Contact the desk or @Todayin1999.