{"id":131341,"date":"2024-11-07T21:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/aols-youve-got-mail-voice-elwood-edwards-dies-at-age-74\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T21:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T21:30:56","slug":"aols-youve-got-mail-voice-elwood-edwards-dies-at-age-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/07\/aols-youve-got-mail-voice-elwood-edwards-dies-at-age-74\/","title":{"rendered":"AOL\u2019s \u2018You\u2019ve Got Mail\u2019 voice, Elwood Edwards, dies at age 74"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Mail\u201d greeting, has died at age 74 after a long illness, according to local Ohio news station WKYC<\/a>, where he was employed for many years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During a 2016 interview<\/a>, Edwards recounted how he became the voice of AOL. His wife, who worked at Quantum Computer Services (which later became AOL), heard that the company was looking to add a voice to its software. \u201cI\u2019d been an announcer throughout my entire broadcasting career, and she volunteered me,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 1989, Edwards recorded the once-ubiquitous phrase, along with \u201cWelcome,\u201d \u201cFiles done,\u201d and \u201cGoodbye\u201d on a cassette tape for just $200. \u201cIt started off as a test just to see if it would catch on, and lo and behold, in the mid-90s, it had really caught on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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AOL still gives you the option to hear \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Mail.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption>Screenshot: The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As a longtime AOL user (yes, I still use AOL to this day), I\u2019m ashamed to admit that I never knew there was a person behind that iconic voice \u2014 I thought it was computer-generated. Even now, Edwards\u2019 voice will continue to live on in my inbox, which still declares, \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Mail.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Mail\u201d greeting, has died at age 74 after a long illness, according to local Ohio news station WKYC, where he was employed for many years. During a 2016 interview, Edwards recounted how he became the voice of AOL. His wife, who worked at Quantum Computer Services (which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}