Have you ever had to write an essay for one of your school or work? You were just lazy at the time, so you looked up an article and copied and pasted it into a google docs. But, you think for a moment, who invented copy/paste? This is the guy you probably didn’t know existed, but you should thank him a bunch: Larry Tesler.
Larry Tesler was born on April 24, 1945, in The Bronx, New York. He attended Stanford, to study computer science. He had then started working for Xerox’s Palto Alto Research Center, or PARC, in 1973.
Larry had joined many companies after PARC, he started working for Steve Jobs and Apple in 1980, teaching them some techniques at PARC. In 2001-2005 he had also joined Amazon. His last company he joined was Yahoo, in 2008. And after all that time, he was finally an independent consultant, starting in 2009, and ever since.
He had helped all these companies, and helped us, with the ease of not having to type out exact letter for letter, word for word. He developed copy and paste over the time period of 3 years, 1973-1976.
After his long journey of computer science, he died –quite recently– on February 16, 2020, at age 74. Next time you copy and paste something, thank this guy for everything he did.
