In 1995, Wired magazine's AOL forum located Elwood Edwards -- whose voice recorded the sound file "You've Got Mail" -- and had him record ten additional sound files.

Users found they could replace Edwards' "You've Got Mail" file with eerily similar announcements.....

You want fries with that?
Yeah, Right
Whatever
Do not panic
You've got credit card debt
Spoon!
Oy Gevalt
Why did you do that?
Stop touching me!
Your mail will look nothing like this

The files have been archived here. Click on its title to download them....






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