The Guy Who Voiced AOL's "You've Got Mail" Has Died
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 8:29 am
Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail” 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 later became AOL), heard that the company was looking to add a voice to its software. “I’d been an announcer throughout my entire broadcasting career, and she volunteered me,” Edwards said.
From theverge.com
During the early to mid 90's my family had Prodigy but I sometimes played around with free trials of AOL, I mostly just used it to download shareware games.
