London, Mar 11 The first task for the world's earliest computer - the Manchester-built Mark One - was to compose romantic verse. And now, an expert has recreated the "love poetry generator" on the Internet.

After creating the Mark One's small-scale prototype, the Baby Computer, in 1948, Manchester University scientists earned worldwide fame.

In 1952, one of the original team of scientists, Christopher Strachey, devised a quirky software programme by entering hundreds of romantic verbs and nouns into the new machine.

Mark One "Baby" used the database to create a stream of light-hearted verse.

Now, German academic David Ward has turned up a light-hearted love-poetry generator program written by Strachey to test the machine's ability to randomly select information, reports The Telegraph.

Ward, a German computer 'archaeologist' unearthed the program while researching Strachey's papers at the Bodelian Library, Oxford, and then spent three months creating his own version of the 'software.'

His website allows visitors to generate their own random 'poetry'.

Also, the expert has created a working replica of the One 'Baby' computer which will run the love letter programme for an exhibition in Germany. (ANI)