In the early days of the inbox， it afforded the naive human organism a certain pleasure to receive an email. Ah， someone thinking of me... So a note or two of greetings whistled through the lonely day.Thanks to email，the eloquence of a moribund letter-writing culture received a rejuvenating jolt of immediacy．As late as me late 1990s and early 2000s，during the last days of dial-up，it still felt nice to send and receive the occasional squib，t0 P1ay an epistolary game of catch with some friends?Sometimes you Would even forward a joke，a larky practice that nowadays seems an unconscionable crime