Elwood Edwards, an announcer and local TV staffer who became internationally famous as the voice of AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” prompt to millions at the dawn of the internet era, has died. He was 74. He ...

For many of us, AOL is a name relegated to the dustbin of history. It doesn’t seem like that long ago when I couldn’t open up my (physical) mailbox without seeing one or two AOL 3.5-inch floppy disks ...

Elwood Edwards, a behind-the-scenes graphics and camera operator at local Cleveland television station WKYC whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame after he recorded AOL’s email greeting, "You’ve ...

For decades those three words were heard billions of times over by anyone who received a message through AOL, a phrase that became synonymous with the dial-up era of the internet. Elwood Edwards, the ...

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Edwards recorded the iconic phrase on a cassette tape in 1989. Edwards recorded the iconic phrase on a cassette tape in 1989. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, ...