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·
      9 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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      9 days ago

      I’ve done a lot of professional VO, and if he was anything like me, yes.

      Because every time he listens to it, he will analyze every little inflection and think, “I could have done that better.” or “they should have used the other take.”

  • bamfic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 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
      25·
      9 days ago

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

      • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lolEnglish
        12·
        9 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
      141·
      9 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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        9 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.