Larry Tesler passed away last week at the age of 74. In case you didn’t know him, he is the one behind the commands “cut”, “copy”, and “paste” — commands that we still use in our computers to this day.
He was part of the golden age of research at Xerox PARC, which bit by bit, transformed the computer from a black box mainframe programmed by esoteric codes into a device that anyone could quickly learn through their own intuition.
He was also the one who created the idea of “user friendliness”, a term that we often hear when it comes to systems and softwares.
Know more about Tesler’s life, such as his first breakthrough and career path, over at Fast Company.
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