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The First Digital Poetry
In 1959 German computer scientist Theo Lutz from Hochschule
Esslingen created the first digital poetry using a text-generating program
called “Stochastiche Textö written for the ZUSE Z22 computer. The
program consisted of only 50 commands but could theoretically generate over
4,000,000 sentences.
Working with his teacher, Max Bense, one of the earliest theorists
of computer poetry, Lutz used a random number generator to create texts where
key words were randomly inserted within a set of logical constants in order to
create a syntax. The programme thus demonstrated how logical structures like
mathematical systems could work with language.
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