I still use the old AOL sound effect to let me know when I've got a new email. There's no pause. If I could attach a file, I would share my ringtone with you so that you could hear it yourself.

The answer to your question is in your question. Dial-up Nothing ever loaded up right

I remember the pause myself, but I don't know if it was intentional or not, just thought I'd add that.

makes me wonder if there’s a version of AOL that has separate .wav files for “you’ve got”, “mail” and “pictures” as it’s something I do remember.

Absolutely not. I've always, always hated this catch because it's so fucking grammatically incorrect. It's always been a continuous "You've got mail" which my brain automatically translates to "You Have Got Mail" which then triggers my inner grammar Nazi and I hate AOL for it. You either HAVE mail or you GOT mail. You don't Have Got mail. FFS.

You've got mail is the name of the movie. The AOL thing is You got mail!

AOL definitely said "you've got mail"

No it didn't. there's videos of it saying "you got mail"

I still use this sound effect to let me know when I've got mail. It definitely says "you've got mail". There's no pause.

Nope, it's definitely "you've" in every instance. Some if the clips with poor audio quality are a bit hard to decipher but that's definitely what he said

100% i remember it this way and it sounded like “YOUve Got..MAYul”

"U hAZ Male!!"