• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    His tombstone had better say “Goodbye.”

    Imagine being such a legendary part of computing history just because you recorded a few voice lines for some upstart that sold internet access by the hour.

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      7 days ago

      He didn’t even work for the company, his wife did. She had him record the lines on a tape recorder in their livingroom. She sold it to the company for a few hundred dollars.