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.

Today, AOL remembers a voice that defined the early internet experience: Elwood Edwards, the man behind the classic “You’ve Got Mail” greeting, died on November 5, 2024, at the age of 74.

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 ...

The cause was complications from a stroke late last year, she said. Edwards taped his AOL greeting in 1989 into a recorder while sitting in the living room of his home. “You’ve got mail ...