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After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste. “When I make a copy-paste error, unlike ...

The computer scientist who invented the concept of cut, copy and paste command died this week, US media have reported. Lawrence Gordon Tesler popularly known as Larry Tesler died on Monday at the age ...

A frequent request we receive, both from Windows “switchers” and long-time Mac users, is for a way to cut and paste files as you can do with text and other content. Mac OS X’s Finder lets you copy and ...

It’s strange to imagine where we’d be if we didn’t have Larry Tesler’s cut, copy, and paste commands. They’re so rudimentary to modern computer functions, and yet there was a time they didn’t exist.

Larry Tesler, the former Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Apple computer scientist best-known for creating the cut, copy and paste commands for personal computers, died earlier this week. He was 74 ...

Computer scientist Larry Tesler, known as the inventor behind the "cut," "copy," and "paste" commands, has died at the age of 74. His contributions to modern technology have made personal computers ...