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Elwood Edwards, the man behind the voice of AOL's 'You've got mail' greeting, dies at 74 (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

.....am I old? I know it's no longer part of pop culture, but it was one of the first things I can remember where technology became part of pop culture.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Broadband had pretty much had taken over most places by the mid-2000s. That was 20 years ago. There are people who can drink now who were born after 9/11.

What I'm trying to say is, yes, we're old. Dialup to younger folks is like what rotary phones were to us.