Edwards recorded the iconic AOL lines at home with a cassette recorder for $200. Little did he know, he would become the ...
Back in 1989, Quantum Computer Services — which would rename itself AOL — hired Edwards to record a series of alerts for the ...
Elwood Edwards, who recorded the famous “you’ve got mail” phrase over 30 years ago for then-unknown company America Online ...
The man who voiced America Online’s famous “You’ve got mail” greeting has died at age 74. Elwood Edwards died Tuesday at his ...
Elwood Edwards has died. His voice greeted AOL email users millions of times every day. Courtesy America Online, file Share ...
Elwood Edwards, an announcer and local TV staffer who became internationally famous as the voice of AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” ...
Elwood Edwards, a behind-the-scenes graphics and camera operator at local Cleveland television station WKYC whose voice was ...
Elwood Edwards, the man behind the classic “You’ve Got Mail” greeting, passed away on November 5, 2024, at the age of 74.
Early in the internet era, he was also behind other AOL messages, including “Welcome!” “They said my voice was heard more than 35 million times a day,” he once said.
Edwards taped his AOL greeting in 1989 into a recorder while sitting in the living room of his home. “You’ve got mail” became a pop culture catchphrase in the late 1990s and served as the title of the ...
Elwood Edwards, the man behind the voice of AOL, passed away Tuesday at the age of 74 following a long illness, according to his former employer, WKYC news in Cleveland, Ohio. Edwards worked at the ...
The famous message was recorded in 1989 and went on to become one of the most recognizable soundbites in the early days of ...