In 1952, Christopher Strachey wrote a combinatory algorithm for the Manchester Mark 1 computer which could create love letters.
The poems it generated have been seen as the first work of electronic literature[1] and a queer critique of heteronormative expressions of love.
silly, “it greatly amused Alan and Christopher Strachey – whose love lives, as it happened, were rather similar too”.
The Mad Libs books were conceived around the same time as Strachey wrote the love letter generator.
In a 1954 paper, Strachey gave one of just a few extant examples of the kinds of love letter the program would generate:Darling Sweetheart, You are my avid fellow feeling.