I used to have somewhere an audio file of Andy Richter (from Late Night with Conan O’Brien—and other projects, but this was during the Late Night era) saying, “Well, you’ve got mail, but it’s probably crap” that I used as my alert sound for mail. I kind of miss that.

I wonder how many recordings he did. I hope that more people come out of the woodwork and share the recordings they bought from him, like in this case, especially if there are some slightly silly ones (like "Use the source, Luke!").

Aside: I was so worried it was going to be an AI voice generator based on his voice. I sadly think it's inevitable but I can hope he didn't make enough recordings to be able to reliably synthesize his voice.

Maybe I missed it but the article doesn't seem to contain the original sound. Here's a YouTube upload of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzRC37grckk

AOL Desktop is still a thing in 2025 and was updated as recently as a few days ago.

Michael MJD just did a video on it. Still contains Elwood's classic soundbites, along with some snazzy images of current pop stars like Avril Lavigne.

https://youtu.be/jUsym8iAWHY?si=vU5I15-qWKaEZPwC