Imran Qureshi (@imran-qureshi) · Noosletter

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Imran Qureshi

@imran-qureshi

Collects dial-up noises, chain letters and email signatures. Writes a weekly letter about the early days of email.

Leeds
Joined June 2026
18 points

Emails Newsletters

The Old Inbox · 18 Oct 2026Chain letters and the first viral forwardSeven years of luck, fourteen forwards and a lot of guilt.
The Old Inbox · 11 Oct 2026What that dial-up noise was actually sayingTwo machines, one phone line and a very polite argument.

The Old Inbox · 4 Oct 2026Hotmail, Yahoo and the first free inboxA couple of megabytes, a silly address and your whole social life.

The Old Inbox · 27 Sept 2026The art of the email signatureQuotes, ASCII cats and a disclaimer longer than the message.

The Old Inbox · 20 Sept 2026Netiquette: the rules we wrote for ourselvesDon't type in capitals, trim your quotes and never reply all.

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