kind of harmonically beautiful
reaction images (text!) that dates back to 1999 doesn't it, already discussing how email was the worst protocol except for all the others.
By the early 2000s on Slashdot people were already referring to it as “spam.txt” in lieu of posting the entire thing; the practice of referring to in-jokes by their filename predates 4chan by many years.
email really is the seductive local minimum in the messaging landscape, bizarre that we still use it but even stranger if we stopped.
