Elwood Edwards, the person behind the enduring “You’ve acquired mail!” greeting on AOL, has died. He was 74.
WKYC-TV Studios in Cleveland, Edwards’ former employer, introduced the information of his dying, which comes following an undisclosed “lengthy sickness.” Edwards had labored on the Ohio station as a “graphics guru, digicam operator and basic jack-of-all-trades.”
He died simply at some point earlier than what would have been his seventy fifth birthday.
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Greater than 30 years in the past, Edwards recorded 4 strains of dialogue for an organization known as America On-line. Edwards’ spouse, Karen, labored on the then-small firm, which was initially known as Quantum Pc Providers.
In a Youtube video from 2012, Edwards shared that his spouse overheard the previous CEO of America On-line discussing including a voice to the then-upcoming AOL software program. That was when Karen volunteered her husband for the function.
Edwards in the end recorded 4 phrases for the corporate. These 4 phrases delivered with human heat — “Welcome,” “You’ve acquired mail,” “File’s performed,” and “Goodbye” — would go on to be seared into the brains of a complete era of early net customers.
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“I had no concept it might turn out to be what it did, I don’t suppose anyone did. Out of the blue, AOL took off… I keep in mind standing in line at CompUSA and seeing [stacks of AOL CDs] and considering, ‘My voice is on each a kind of, and no person has a clue,’” Edwards stated in a 2019 episode of the podcast Silent Giants With Corey Cambridge.
Edwards was born in New Bern, North Carolina, and graduated from highschool within the state. His profession began when he labored in radio in highschool. He later transitioned to working in TV later in his life.
As for his iconic voice recordings for AOL, Edwards solely made a flat charge of $200 for recording his 4 strains for the corporate.
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