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Hi, welcome to 'love2'!

This is the working title of the simulated Manchester Mark 1 Emulator's Loveletters, the first electronically generated text.
Loveletters is a program from 1952 by Christopher Strachey that ran on the Manchester Mark 1 computer .
The Emulator is the creation of David Link.

'love2' was reverse-engineered by working back from the version that runs on David's website.
This was without having seen David's program, therefore any shortcomings are not his fault! The code is here.
love2 interactive version is here.
For those looking for the French language (much mangled by the online translator) version, the link is here.
This page auto-refreshes every 15 seconds and writes a new Loveletter.

SWEETHEART DARLING         MY EROTIC APPETITE WINNINGLY PRIZES YOUR KEEN RAPTURE. YOU ARE MY AMOROUS AFFECTION:  MY WISTFUL FERVOUR. YOU ARE MY FERVENT AMBITION. YOU ARE MY AFFECTIONATE ARDOUR:  MY UNSATISFIED TENDERNESS:  MY SWEET EAGERNESS. MY DEAR APPETITE DEVOTEDLY LOVES YOUR LOVING AMBITION.                                                                                  YOURS BURNINGLY                                         M. U. C. [admirer]