It’s strange to imagine where we’d be if we didn’t have Larry Tesler’s cut, copy, and paste commands. They’re so rudimentary to modern computer functions, and yet there was a time they didn’t exist.

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember the legacy of computer scientist Larry Tesler, the man who came up the copy-and-paste function. Tesler died this week at the age of 74. A moment now to ...

One of the most common functions on Windows systems is cut, copy, and paste. The easiest way to do so is to drag the file across folders or use keyboard shortcuts to perform the functions – Cut-CTRL+X ...

Larry Tesler, a pioneer of personal computing credited with creating the cut, copy and paste as well as the search and replace functions, has died. He was 74. Tesler was not nearly as well known as ...