He's Got 5.0; America Online Extends Relationship With Elwood Edwards, Familiar Voice Behind AOL's 'You've Got Mail'.DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 26, 1999-- "You've Got Mail The audio announcement heard millions of times per day by AOL users. The voice was recorded by Elwood "El" Edwards in 1989 at the suggestion of his wife Karen, who worked in customer service for Quantum Computer Services (before Quantum became AOL). !" -- The man behind the three most famous words in cyberspace will be greeting AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. members a while longer. America Online See AOL. , the world's leading interactive services company, announced today that it has extended its relationship with Elwood Edwards Elwood Edwards is an American voice over actor. He is best known as the voice of the Internet service provider America Online, which he first recorded in 1989. His greetings include "Welcome," "You've got mail," "You've got pictures," "File's done," and "Goodbye. to make his friendly online greetings and voice prompts a key signature of the new AOL 5.0. Under the agreement, AOL will utilize Edwards' voice-over services for new features of AOL 5.0, including "You've Got Pictures," a service which enables members to send and share pictures online. Now when members have pictures waiting for them in their email box they are greeted by a "You've Got Pictures" message in Edwards' familiar tones when they sign on to AOL 5.0 Edwards first provided a recording for AOL in 1989, when the service was experimenting with tools to help personalize the online environment and make it more user-friendly. The same year, with the launch of AOL 1.0, AOL's approximate 50,000 members became the first online audience to be welcomed by the human voice. Today, AOL's recorded greetings are heard over 40 million times daily by members and include the hallmark "Welcome," "You've Got Mail," "File's Done" and "Goodbye" messages. "When you hear 'You've Got Mail,' you can't help but automatically associate the phrase with AOL and the Internet. You can hear the greetings everywhere - in commercials, television shows and even movies," said Jonathan Sacks Not to be confused with Yonason Sacks. Rabbi Sir Jonathan Henry Sacks (born 1948, London) is the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom's main body of Orthodox synagogues. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. , Senior Vice President and General Manager of the AOL service. "We look forward to our continued relationship with Elwood and witnessing this continued phenomenon and mass market appeal of the AOL online greetings." "Who could have foreseen something like this happening," said Elwood Edwards. "Years ago my wife worked at AOL and asked me to record the greetings for the company. Now, as I think about the millions of AOL members who consider me as the 'mailman' of cyberspace, I'm amazed. I'm pleased that I've had a small part in making the computer world smaller and more personable PERSONABLE. Having the capacities of a person; for example, the defendant was judged personable to maintain this action. Old Nat. Brev. 142. This word is obsolete. ." Edwards has recently started his own business doing voice-overs for commercial and business broadcasts, radio and television. More information about Elwood Edwards and his voice-over services can be found at his Website, http://members.aol.com/voicepro. About America Online Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 19 million members, and CompuServe, worth more than 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , AOL Instant Messanger, Digital City Inc.; Netscape Netcenter, AOL.COM portals; Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Communicator browsers; AOL MovieFone, Spinner Networks and NullSoft, Inc.; and Digital Marketing Services, Inc., the leading provider of online, ROI-based, marketing services and online custom market research. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. |
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