[Sethomas]

It did back in 2001, and the hip thing amongst the mockers was to get the free voicemail accounts and talk to each other. I remember calling some 1-800 number every half an hour from Sea World payphones to get board updates during a vacation my family took to see my aunt before she died. My aunt wanted to see Sea World one last time, I guess.

But yeah, Yahoo! and Excite both had free voicemail by some technological quirk by which that actually made good business sense for a few months. Even though Excite's was better somehow only Emma or maybe Burdock used that one and the lack of uniformity just FUCKED UP THE SYSTEM. What made it okay was that the robot for Excite's system had a comically sultry voice, just not as comically sultry as Miss Emma's.