The man who voiced America Online’s famous “You’ve got mail” greeting has died at age 74. Elwood Edwards died Tuesday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina.
    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      The moment you forgot the speakers were turned up from listening to The Offspring earlier

      Somehow, this was not an issue for me in the 1990s.

  • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    I hated the file’s done. He sounded like such a goober on all of em, but that one was extra special annoying

    • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
      24·
      7 days ago

      I’ve never even used AOL mail and I still know exactly what the notification sounds like.

      • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lolEnglish
        11·
        7 days ago

        I was born in the 2000’s and didn’t have an email account until 2012, and even I know what it sounds like.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      7 days ago

      …am I old? I know it’s no longer part of pop culture, but it was one of the first things I can remember where technology became part of pop culture.

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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        7 days ago

        Broadband had pretty much had taken over most places by the mid-2000s. That was 20 years ago. There are people who can drink now who were born after 9/11.

        What I’m trying to say is, yes, we’re old. Dialup to younger folks is like what rotary phones were to us.