Linus Torvalds:'This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for....
oh wow, upon investigating the history of art-bots, I came across a Usenet bot called Mark V Chaney (a play on Markov Chain) that dates back to 1984! Possibly the first ever Art-Bot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
DEAREST JEWEL YOU ARE MY WINNING HEART. MY LUST ADORES YOUR ARDOUR. YOU ARE MY PRECIOUS CHARM, MY SYMPATHETIC FELLOW FEELING, MY CRAVING FERVOUR. YOURS WISTFULLY, M.U.C.