From CNBC: (video below)
Over the last two decades, Elwood Edwards’ voice has been heard billions of times.
He doesn’t have a record-setting song; he never starred in a viral YouTube video; and you probably wouldn’t know who he was by looking at his picture.
That’s because Edwards is the voice behind AOL’s four famous phrases: “Welcome. You’ve got mail. File’s done. Goodbye.”
How did he get the gig?
“My wife worked for a company called Quantum Computer Services that became AOL,” Edwards told CNBC, “and in 1989 she volunteered my voice to [future CEO] Steve Case. And on a cassette deck in my living room, I recorded [the iconic phrases], it was digitized into the software as a test and has continued to the day.”