RIP Larry Tesler: The Man That Invented Cut, Copy, And Paste On The Computer

www.barstoolsports.com ^ | 2/20/2020 2:19 PM | Clem

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BBC- Larry Tesler, an icon of early computing, has died at the age of 74. Mr Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to the vast majority of people. It was thanks to his innovations - which included the "cut", "copy" and "paste" commands - that the personal computer became simple to learn and use.

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RIP Larry Tesler: The Man That Invented Cut, Copy, And Paste On The Computer. Ernie Banks once said "The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched". Which means Larry Tesler is pretty much one of the most legendary humans on the planet. It doesn't matter if you are a kid plagiarizing your way through school, a cube monkey crushing formulas on Excel spreadsheets, or just the run of the mill lazy person on the internet that doesn't feel like typing.

Hearing Tesler passed away CTRL-X'd my heart out and I imagine this news did the same to countless others. There is no way Barstool Sports makes it as a company let alone a company valued at $450 million dollars without the Copy & Paste feature that has been used for roughly a zillion blogs. If you think us idiots are bad at typing words that come from our brains, you don't even want to know how bad we would do transcribing a story without CTRL-C and CTRL-V teaming up to effortlessly move paragraphs around like a Wade-to-LeBron dunk.

Chris Bosh is obviously CTRL-X in this comparison

The fact that Tesler invented Find and Replace as well yet it didn't even make it into the opening paragraph of the articles discussing his death lets you know the kind of titan of the industry we lost because I legitimately felt like a wizard the first time I used the Replace function.

So RIP In Peace to Larry Tesler, a true legend of the computer world ipso facto the internet world ipso facto the human world that saved countless hand muscles and careers that required even a moderate amount of typing as pretty much the Tommy John of computers. Which is why I am officially inducting Larry as the 2nd member of the Human Hall of Fame that I created, with the only other member being Eli Manning.

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Rest In Peace, indeed!.....................

[ClearCase_guy]

So RIP In Peace to Larry Tesler

For Your FYI, that is redundant.

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What did we say when RIP Torn died?...................RIP RIP?..................

[null and void]

Yup yup

[gibsonguy]

What a huge contribution he made. As big as spell check. On the other hand the auto fill guy should be shot

[duckman]

“What a huge contribution he made.”
Back in the day, I worked with an IBM Fellow at IBM Yorktown Heights, that invented the cursor. That was a great achievement as well.

[mrmeyer]

Amen

[LittleBillyInfidel]

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On the other hand the auto fill guy should be shot..........ship.........shoe..........sh!t............

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Yes, and people have been looking for it ever since!.................

[newzjunkey]

This underplays his contribution to our situation today. He was all about modeless computing which meant you no longer had to get into a mode to do edits and so forth. Things were done inline.

He also lead the milestone tour of Xerox PARC for Steve Jobs and his team which planted the seeds for how Macintosh operated and seeds for what NeXT would do when Steve was exiled by Apple.

Tesler later moved to Apple as chief scientist. In the nineties he advised CEO Gil Amelio to choose NeXT over Be Inc when searching for a modern operating system to replace their failed projects at Apple. He infamously warned Gil whichever choice he made meant bringing someone in who would take his job. That lead to Steve Jobs’ return to Apple and consequently Mac OS X and the path to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, etc.

[dangus]

Edit -> Paste and Match Style

Yasss!

-> HTML only.

Oh well...

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PING!.......................

[G Larry]

As someone who used to create Interface Control Documents by literal “cut & paste” from engineering copies, “My Hat’s Off to Larry”.

[GOPJ]

Every writer owes this man...

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As does every plagiarist!.................

[Robert A Cook PE]

Now, how many remember “why” Tesler decided he could use Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V, Ctrl-R, Ctrl-F and have those commands be so readily accepted by (now) billions of computer users?

Others, less commonly remembered:
Ctrl-Z Undo.
Ctrl-Y Repeat Last Commend
Ctrl-N New (message) in Outlook email
Ctrl-[End] Sends cursor to end
Ctrl-[Home] Sends cursor to front (or first)

Depending on the program, others are for formatting
Ctrl-I Italics
Ctrl-B Bold
Ctrl-+ Zoom in (make image bigger)
Ctrl— Zoom out (make image smaller)

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Now, how many remember “why” Tesler decided he could use Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V, Ctrl-R, Ctrl-F and have those commands be so readily accepted by (now) billions of computer users?

Because he was a CTRL freak?.....................[no mouses]

[Swordmaker]

Larry Tessler, Inventor of Cut, Copy, and Paste Dies. Tessler, while with Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto’s Research Center (PARC) was instrumental in arranging Apple’s Steve Jobs’ visit which eventually resulted in the Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh computers with their graphical user interface. Tessler later jumped from PARC to Apple. —PING!

Larry Tessler, Inventor of Cut, Copy, and Paste Dies
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[polymuser]

A very fitting tribute!