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Hi, welcome to 'love2'!

This is a simulated version of the Manchester University Computer's Loveletters, the first electronically generated text.
Loveletters is a program that generated texts and the original dates from 1952. It was by Christopher Strachey and ran on the Ferranti Mark I 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.

This page auto-refreshes and writes a new loveletter every 15 seconds.

This version was included in exhibitions in Poitier ('make art', 7th-13th December 2009)
and Groningen, ('chmod+xART', 2nd-7th March 2010). Also, in 'Chercher le texte' (Labo BnF | BnF Francois-Mitterand, 21st Sept-1st Dec 2013).

SWEETHEART SWEETHEART         YOU ARE MY DEAR HEART:  MY DEAR EAGERNESS. MY AVID WISH BEAUTIFULLY CARES FOR YOUR LOVESICK HUNGER. YOU ARE MY COVETOUS TENDERNESS. YOU ARE MY COVETOUS YEARNING:  MY CRAVING YEARNING:  MY CURIOUS INFATUATION.                                                                                  YOURS FONDLY                                         M. U. C. [admirer]