Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 8: Tooling Era (2000s)
2007
Allison Parrish Launches Everyword
Allison Parrish launches @everyword, a Twitter poetry bot tasked with tweeting “every word in the English language, in alphabetical order, one word at a time, every thirty minutes.” The bot completed its mission in June 2014.
-Sasha Stiles
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
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Computer Text, Generative Poetry
Filed under
- Ideas
- Computer Text, Generative Poetry, poetry, Social Media Art
- Technologies
- bots
- People
- Allison Parrish, Sasha Stiles
- Works
- Everyword
- Organisations
Echoes across time
- ca. 2300 BCE · First Known Author Is a Woman
- 1677 · Artificial Versifying by John Peter
- 1966 · Joseph Weizenbaum publishes ELIZA
Le Random editorials
- Sasha Stiles and Martha Joseph on Language as Technology, Peter Bauman, September 10, 2025
- Sasha Stiles on Writing Poets, Peter Bauman, January 25, 2024
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 8—Tooling Era (2000s) with Christiane Paul, Casey Reas, Christa Sommerer & Golan Levin — listen with transcript on Le Random (15 May 2024, 64 min). Chapter 8’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify