The scientist, Lawrence Larry Tesler, who invented the popular computer command, ‘Cut’, ‘Copy’, and ‘Paste’ is dead.
He died at the age of 74.
Larry Tesler created the cut-copy-paste feature when he was at Xerox PARC in 1973.
His death was announced to the world in a tweet by Xerox, where he spent part of his career as a researcher.
The company announced that he died on Monday without giving any information about where he had died or the cause of his death.
The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler. Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas. Larry passed away Monday, so please join us in celebrating him. Photo credit: Yahoo CC-By-2.0 https://t.co/MXijSIMgoA pic.twitter.com/kXfLFuOlon
— Xerox (@Xerox) February 19, 2020
According to the company, “The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more was former Xerox researcher, Larry Tesler,” the company said.
“Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas. Larry passed away Monday, so please join us in celebrating him.”
Tesler was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1945, and studied at Stanford University in California.
In his lifetime, he specialised in human-computer interaction and worked at Xerox Amazon, Apple and Yahoo.
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