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I tried to work one day without using "ctrl + c" and "ctrl + v" in homage to its creator

2020-02-21T01:38:45.406Z


Without using Tesler's invention, it seems that I am working on a typewriter with the Internet.


It is 12:45 and, after a long debate, we have decided that as a tribute to the death of Larry Tesler, the creator of the “copy” and “paste” commands, I will be working a day without using them and timing how long They save me on a daily basis. Specifically, in the previous sentence, they would have already saved me 47 seconds: five, in searching and writing the name of “Larry Tesler” that, since I searched for it to verify that it was well written, I would have stuck it. The remaining 42 seconds I have dedicated to linking the obituary of THE COUNTRY, writing the URL letter by letter, from its "https: //" to the end. I think that today I will be long.

I had never cared that web page addresses were long and had so many numbers. The truth is that I had not noticed. Until today. Without using Tesler's invention, it seems that I am working on a typewriter with the Internet. Do you know how many links has at least one news from Verne ? I had not counted them either until each one has become a small ordeal. There are three, not counting those that appear in the text: the link to the headband - up, where it says "we tested it for you" - and the two related news (below). In total, I have spent two minutes and ten seconds on something that I do not usually devote more than a few finger movements. You better click on everything.

While I hold my fingers to avoid succumbing to the temptation of a ctrl + c and ctrl + v, I wonder what our computing life would be like without Tesler's invention. Surely, as many users have commented on Twitter, we would have learned more at the institute and the university without doing jobs based on copying and pasting some of the corners of Rincon del Vago (I'm catching the trick, 44 seconds to write the link) . There would also be fewer hoaxes: I don't think many people would have tried to spread that Facebook was going to be paid if instead of "copy this text on your wall" they had said "write this text again".

Larry Tesler died, scientist creator of the "cut, copy, paste".
Hundreds of graduates, who owe their thesis, already cry.

- Xavier Tello (@StratCons) February 20, 2020

What you see above, by the way, is an embedded tweet. By "inside", your html code is like this:

The guts of a tweet. My fingers hurt just to see them.

I had to cheat. First, I copied it by hand, which has translated into five minutes and seven seconds. And I shouldn't have done it right:

This is what happens when you miss the html code of a tweet.

I've tried again in a quick four minutes and 48 seconds. I have copied it badly again, and I have not dared to try it a third time. Luckily my colleagues have taken pity on me and have not asked me to prepare a collection of 95 tweets (another link, another 39 seconds lost). Of course, as I write this, I am preparing another topic that I will publish in the next few days. I have found some information that seems to be worth it, and I say "it seems" because ... I am not sure about it. The page is in Portuguese and, after months of making the joke of Darío Eme Hache of “agora sim understand” (another link, this in 40 seconds), it seems that I do not understand so much. I keep it for tomorrow. I'm going to save myself five minutes by writing on Google Translate.

At this point, it is 7:20 pm and I have lost 16 minutes, and that does not include minutiae such as rewriting email addresses to send emails or write names that I would usually paste. Luckily, this theme is a tribute to Tesler and not to Arnold Schwarzenegger (I have timed this one, two seconds).

The good? I have procrastinated very little: I have stopped doing many things that I do in my day to day by not writing more links. I have not tweeted anything with links, nor have I sent bullshit on WhatsApp ... Or my fellow Verne . They have also thanked him:

So, thanks, Larry Tesler, for saving me 16 minutes a day. Although, in reality, there should be many more. Not only because of everything I have stopped doing in order not to write more URLs and tweet by hand, but because I had to make a huge trap. While writing this topic, I realized that, as usual, I was writing it in a Google Docs, the online text editor of Google. As my fingers ached just thinking about rewriting it all in the news editor, I decided to flee forward. This text has been written by me and copied and pasted by a partner.

Forgive me because I hit

Although on this subject we have honored Larry Tesler with a day without "cut and paste", Twitter has been commemorated backwards: with a lot of ctrl + c and ctrl + v. Then you can see some of them. I had to copy-paste to include them because I just want to go home. Forgive me, Tesler, because I hit.

pic.twitter.com/MxM2MtoxcG

- The Lost Hours (@horasperdidas) February 20, 2020

The inventor of Control C dies | Control VMuere the inventor ofMuere the inventor of Control C | Control V: https://t.co/wiLA1qWOz0 pic.twitter.com/MHPopyCNLc

- El Mundo Today (@elmundotoday) February 20, 2020

Thanks for everything, Larry Tesler. Thanks for everything, Larry Tesler. Thanks for everything, Larry Tesler. Thanks for everything, Larry Tesler. Thanks for everything, Larry Tesler. Thanks for everything, Larry Tesler. Thanks for everything, Larry Tesler. https://t.co/M2iFjSJHlW

- Enjuto Mojamuto (@enjutomojamuto) February 20, 2020

Larry Tesler died, who invented copy-paste and helped, almost like Gutenberg, to make ideas reproduce more easily. Larry Tesler died, who invented copy-paste and helped, almost like Gutenberg, to make ideas reproduce more easily.

- José Acévez (@joseacevez) February 20, 2020

DB_USER = admin
DB_PASSSWD = admin
DB_HOST = localhost
DB_PORT = 27017
DB_NAME = tempmail

😅

- Héctor Castillo (@eskai_kun) February 19, 2020

This man has donated to humanity such an amount of billions of hours saved that it would deserve a worldwide homage. https://t.co/lBc8be15XI

- Pampa G. Molina (@pampanilla) February 20, 2020

If you copy and paste this tweet, you will see that there are people copying and tweeting it, and people who take that tweet and copy and tweet it, and more than people who take that tweet and copy and tweet it, and ...

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Source: elparis

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