In 1969 Philip K. Dick wrote about use of translation computers over the internet to play ‘the game’ in the novel Galactic Pot-healer. The characters choose a common saying or movie title and use multiple translation computers to create an odd phrase, which they post. The first person to solve for the original phrase is the winner. I believe the Galactic Pot-healer is the first description of the internet used for social fun. Can anyone confirm or counter this belief?
Anyway, this is a very interesting way to generate poetry, and way more fun than ‘the game’:
