LARRY TESLER

Feb. 23, 2020

Larry Tesler, the computer scientist who invented the “cut, copy, paste” command, find & replace, and more died in San Francisco. He was 74.

About:

He was a former Xerox researcher, who also went on to work in some of the other big tech companies, including Apple, Yahoo, Amazon.com to name a few.
He is credited as the inventor of ‘modeless editing and cut, copy and paste’ while he was part of the research staff at Xerox. He also helped to invent the ability to find & replace text.
His other contributions at Xerox included prototyping a page layout system similar to the later Pagemaker and hardware design of the first luggable computer called the Notetaker.
Tesler also claimed he coined the word “browser” in 1976, to mean a point-and-click information navigation window, and the word “modeless” around 1970, which means a user interface in which the user is never “stuck” in a mode.
In 2009 he was granted the John McCarthy Award for Excellence in Research and Research Environments.