Posted on 02/21/2020 7:02:49 AM PST by Red Badger
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.
a whole obit without one mention of jobs, apple or the mac
“What a huge contribution he made. As big as spell check. On the other hand the auto fill guy should be shot”
Yes.
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?
“Silly Rabbit” /bad commercial voice
No, no. 8<)
The ^ (upwards “V”) was every editor’s handwritten mark to “insert text here” on a piece of paper.
“X” removes the “lined out text”
So, if you are “inserting text”, you are either using “^” or “V” - and the ^ wasn’t on every keyboard yet or accepted in 80 character IBM punch cards since it was a “power of ten” command.
And, if you are inserting text, you must have either “Copied it” or “Cut it” first. to keep things more clear, C = Copy and X became “Cut it out” from “X it out”
Useful commands, particular the keyboard shortcuts.
However, I think highest praise should go to the inventor of UNDO
I'm amazed at the number of people today that don't know that you can use your keyboard to cut/copy/paste.
I'm pretty sure people have been cursing since Biblical times.
I'm amazed that I have no clue the difference between cut and copy, I guess someday I'll look it up.
I vaguely remember the ‘Wordstar’ keyboard shortcuts, and I used to use them hundreds of times a day!..............in the late 80’s............
Nigeria should canonize Tesler.
They demand a fee........................
Cut & Paste: Removes a block of text and puts it somewhere else.
Copy & Paste: Duplicates a block of text somewhere else.
In addition, most Linux distributions actually have 2 clipboards. If you’re using your mouse you can highlight a selection with the left button, then paste with the middle. This is a separate clipboard from the cut/copy/paste one. I use this feature all the time so I don’t have to go back and forth on documents as much.
Wonder if he was responsible for cntl’Z
Thx, I guess I normally only copy and paste.
im a cuttin’ and pastin’ mofo from wayback ..
and still very active
RIP
John Knoll invented Photoshop. When he goes I will be skeptical about any photos released surrounding his demise.
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