[Inyo-Mono]

Tesler was inspired by the old-school manual editing method where people physically cut sections of printed text and glued them elsewhere. Copy and Paste

I did that for a living back in the '70s and '80s and what you did was take an Xacto knife and literally cut out a line or paragraph of text printed on photo paper by a typesetter and paste it, except we didn't use glue, we rolled the back of the type with hot wax and then carefully laid it down on a new board with a T square on an art table then rolled the piece down with a wooden roller to make it stick firmly. Wax, unlike glue, could easily be pried up to place the type elsewhere if necessary. I did that with everything from newspaper pages to magazines to books.

[Paladin2]

Well, that is a job I was unaware of back in the day when I started working.

You did that for the Bodie Free Press?

[Paladin2]

“... most notably The Standard Pioneer Journal of Mono County, The Daily Free Press, and the Bodie Miner.”

[ifinnegan]

Yes. Scissors and paste is a very old term.