Larry Tesler, the UI wizard behind cut, copy, and paste, has passed away at age 74. Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P in your honor, brother!

Larry Tesler, the UI wizard behind cut, copy, and paste, has passed away. Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P in your honor, brother! Larry Tesler, the UI wizard behind cut, copy, and paste, has passed away. Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P in your honor, brother! Larry Tesler, the UI wizard behind cut, copy, and paste, has passed away. Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P in your honor, brother!

The Verge:

Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who is most well-known for creating the seminal computer concepts cut, copy, and paste, died on Monday at age 74.

Tesler was born in 1945 in New York and studied computer science at Stanford, according to Gizmodo. After working in AI research, he joined Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973, where he developed cut, copy, and paste. The concepts would later become instrumental user interface building blocks for both text editors and entire computer operating systems.