AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ voice, Elwood Edwards, dies at age 74 (www.theverge.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 20:19
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return2ozma@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 20:21 next collapse

Nostalgia… youtu.be/dudJjUU9Nhs

A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 20:31 next collapse

Man I’ve had enough bad news for one week :(

sbv@sh.itjust.works on 08 Nov 22:04 collapse

Be strong for Elwood.

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 21:03 next collapse

Oh shit

I set “You’ve got mail” as my default notification sound as a joke less than a week ago. (E: not quite, more like 10 days ago)

RIP, your voice was heard by millions.

atlas@sh.itjust.works on 10 Nov 07:06 collapse

damn, a lot of people heard your ringtone in such a short amount of time

sirboozebum@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 22:21 next collapse

I really miss the early internet.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 09 Nov 15:17 collapse

I don’t miss having to insert a new CD for a few hours of free dialup. Waiting 5 minutes for a picture of tits to load. Fighting with my sister because she picked up the phone when I was in the middle of a fap session in the family computer room with the door wedged shut

sirboozebum@lemmy.world on 09 Nov 20:05 collapse

I didn’t miss that.

But I do miss the content, structure and vastness of the old internet.

Now it has been turned into a strip mall dominated by Facebook, Google, etc. and enshittenification.

c0smokram3r@midwest.social on 08 Nov 22:47 next collapse

🫡

millifoo@lemmings.world on 09 Nov 00:11 next collapse

Back in the (late) 90s, for $10 or so, Elwood would record a customized “you’ve got mail!” message for you. I had him create one for my (now) wife, using her real first name, as well as her nickname. “Elizabeth, you’ve got mail!”

return2ozma@lemmy.world on 09 Nov 03:15 collapse

That’s so awesome!

altima_neo@lemmy.zip on 09 Nov 04:21 next collapse

What a boss.

hperrin@lemmy.world on 09 Nov 06:44 next collapse

That’s not who I wanted to see dead at 74.

intensely_human@lemm.ee on 09 Nov 21:25 next collapse

He looks exactly like he sounds.

jdw@links.mayhem.academy on 09 Nov 21:56 next collapse

You never really think there’s people behind these things.

[deleted] on 09 Nov 22:28 collapse

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werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 10 Nov 16:12 collapse

So we loose this guy but not putin or ‘you’re fired’ guy. If there hasn’t been any sign indicating the absence of a god, I don’t know what else you would need.

Meanwhile I’ll keep searching for"did trump choke on a pretzel today?" On my favorite search engine that doesn’t start with G.