Silicon Valley mourns Larry Tesler, the computer scientist who invented the "cut", "copy" and "paste" commands in the seventies, still in use on computers, smartphones and tablets.
Lawrence Gordon Tesler, this is the full name, died last Monday at the age of 74, but the news only became public in the last few hours. "The inventor of cut, copy and paste, find and replace, and more was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler. Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas," tweeted Xerox, the company in which the IT began his long career, then continued in Apple, Amazon and Yahoo.
Graduated from Stanford University, Tesler specialized in human-computer interaction. Its "cut, copy and paste" was popularized by Apple, which in 1983 adopted it on the compure Lisa and in 1984 on the first Macintosh. "Tesler created the idea of cutting, copying and pasting, and combined IT training with the countercultural idea that computers should be suitable for everyone," the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum wrote on Twitter.