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You've Got Mail (AOL)
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About the You've Got Mail (AOL) sound
Elwood Edwards recorded these three words in 1989 on a cassette deck in his living room, for a company his wife worked for, and accidentally soundtracked the arrival of the internet in ordinary homes. AOL's greeting became so thoroughly iconic it got a Tom Hanks film named after it. What is genuinely lost to history is the feeling attached: mail was a treat, an event, evidence that somebody had thought about you. Play it for anyone who remembers checking an inbox with hope rather than dread. Nobody has felt this way about email since about 2004.
OriginAOL's iconic email notification.
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- #aol
- #youve-got-mail
- #retro
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