Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'You’ve got mail,' dies at 74

Edwards taped his AOL greeting in 1989 into a recorder in the living room of his home, and earned $200 for that and several other phrases

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Elwood Edwards, who voiced America Online’s ever-present “You’ve got mail” greeting, has died. He was 74.

He died Tuesday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina, said his daughter Heather Edwards. 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” became a pop culture catchphrase in the late 1990s and served as the title of the 1998 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan film.