Ryan famously received her first computer while working on the film. Meanwhile, the studio had to ask the user with the name ‘Shopgirl’ on AOL to change it so Kathleen could use her email address in the film.

Woven into the romcom are homages to Parfumerie, the 1937 play that inspired Ephron to co-write You’ve Got Mail with her sister, Delia. Kathleen’s bookstore is even named The Shop Around The Corner after the 1940 big-screen adaptation, while the interiors paid tribute to New York’s oldest and largest independent children’s bookstore, Books Of Wonder.

The wholesomeness of this love story didn’t stop there. Ephron commissioned a website for the 80s romcom that stored all of Joe and Kathleen’s emails for fans to read, which remained live for 20 years afterwards (the site closed in 2018).

Fast forward a quarter of a century and films about online dating are often posed through a darker, grittier lens, while dating apps have become a breeding ground for the anxieties and horror stories of connecting with strangers online.

From cannibalism in Fresh and kidnapping in Missing to violence in Cat Person, audiences are told that one online date could lead to horrific, traumatic places; the suggestion that it might ultimately lead to love is rare. In contemporary romcoms like Bros, dating apps are the butt of the joke and it’s insinuated that they’re a farcical tool incapable of finding anything more than one night with someone. Not often is a Pride And Prejudice-inspired romance like Joe and Kathleen’s on the cards.

The literary-obsessed protagonists have a delightful enemies-to-lovers trajectory, as they move from rival bookstore owners to lovers. They also indulge in a battle of wits reminiscent of Kathleen’s favourite literary couple, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, ingraining a familiar old soul feeling into a brand-new love story.

You’ve Got Mail at 25: how Nora Ephron’s romcom preserves the innocent dawn of digital dating