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

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

1 posted on 02/21/2020 7:02:49 AM PST by Red Badger

So RIP In Peace to Larry Tesler

For Your FYI, that is redundant.

2 posted on 02/21/2020 7:05:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)

To: ClearCase_guy

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

3 posted on 02/21/2020 7:06:57 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)

4 posted on 02/21/2020 7:09:07 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)

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

5 posted on 02/21/2020 7:10:19 AM PST by gibsonguy

“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.

6 posted on 02/21/2020 7:15:42 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)

7 posted on 02/21/2020 7:19:48 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)

Thanks for your contribution, Larry!

8 posted on 02/21/2020 7:20:00 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)

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

9 posted on 02/21/2020 7:20:31 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)

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

10 posted on 02/21/2020 7:21:27 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)

To: Red Badger; All

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.

11 posted on 02/21/2020 7:22:51 AM PST by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)

Edit -> Paste and Match Style

Yasss!

-> HTML only.

Oh well...

12 posted on 02/21/2020 7:24:58 AM PST by dangus

To: newzjunkey; Swordmaker; ShadowAce

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

13 posted on 02/21/2020 7:26:03 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)

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

14 posted on 02/21/2020 7:28:21 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)

Every writer owes this man...

15 posted on 02/21/2020 7:30:27 AM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)

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

16 posted on 02/21/2020 7:31:00 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)

To: Red Badger; Kaslin; Liz; SunkenCiv

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)

17 posted on 02/21/2020 7:31:30 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)

To: 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?

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

18 posted on 02/21/2020 7:39:58 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)

To: Red Badger; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...

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
PING!

If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.

19 posted on 02/21/2020 7:46:10 AM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)

To: LittleBillyInfidel

A very fitting tribute!

20 posted on 02/21/2020 7:46:20 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)

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