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 ...

I’m always fascinated that someone designed just about everything you use, no matter how trivial it is. The keyboard you type on, the light switch you turn on, even the faucet handle. They don’t just ...

It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. It’s not quite the same as doing it on a desktop. Cutting, copying, and pasting are actions that are regularly performed in apps and between apps: ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Tesler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who created the now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as “cut,” “copy” and “paste,” has died. He was 74. He made using computers easier for ...

As our iPhones and iPads increasingly become the primary way we interact with others online, really good text management features have become more important. The old “shake to undo” gesture just isn’t ...

Google Docs is a convenient and free way to get the basic functionality of the Microsoft Office suite of programs. It lets you create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in an online interface, ...

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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.