A Real Life Guy Actually Voiced AOL's Famous "You've Got Mail"

For years, I thought the voice telling me I had new e-mail was a computer talking to me! Now Great Big Story tells me that Elwood Edwards was a professional voice actor whose wife worked for the company that would become America Online. Talk about a lucky break — or so you would think. Edwards was never able to find work (outside of an appearance on The Simpsons) after doing the lines heard by around 30+ million people every day in the '90s. Hear his story below.