Indeed, the "I Love You" message was so simple and beguiling that in some cases it hoodwinked even the most sophisticated computer programmers.
And the company's relatively small headcount provides an important talking point in the battle to attract the most talented computer programmers.
These are just some of the labels that have been applied to the world's most sought after computer programmers.
"The fact that most of the earliest computer programmers were women, and that racial and ethnic minorities around the world have contributed immeasurably to the birth of the internet, is something you would never know by reading Silicon Valley's autobiography," says May Waver, who works in St Paul, Minnesota at the intersection of art, tech and health.
Most of them worked as computer programmers, an occupation that they had taken up in America, where they found it easier and more profitable than trying to prove the value of their Russian degrees in science or the arts.
Sun Microsystems, which Oracle bought along with Sun's Java technology two years ago, had made most of Java freely available to computer programmers.
Microserfs, the jokes and jargon of a group of computer programmers, is his most convincing and illuminating closed world; Girlfriend in a Coma is tender end-of-the-world romance and a blast against apathy.
Computer programmers are among the most sleep deprived (if you're reading this and still awake, you probably don't live in the South).
Before the development of Multics, most computer operating systems operated in batch mode, forcing programmers to edit large stacks of punched cards or paper tape.
The jobs most in demand in Westchester employ the skills of computer programmers and software developers, he said.
