Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL’s iconic greeting ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ dies at 74

Any former AOL user can recognize his voice. More than 30 years ago, Elwood Edwards recorded four iconic lines for what was then a little-known company called America Online.

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