Larry Tesler is not really famous compared to computing giants like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. However, according to CNN, he plays an important and long-term role in making people access computers.
Xerox (XRX), the company where Larry Tesler developed the above functions, has issued a statement about his departure.
"Your working day is easier thanks to his revolutionary ideas," the company shared on social media.
Cutting, copying and pasting, searching and replacing are functions that are used millions of times a day, but not many users think of who invented and developed them, according to CNN.
The American news agency said that before the invention of Tesler, computer users had to use complex programs in different "modes".
The removal of " away from home" has opened the door for computer users to interact and use personal computers for the past 40 years. Most of the work to create this was done in a Xerox computer lab.
CNN said that most people currently only know Xerox as a photocopying machine manufacturer, but in its heyday, the company developed many technologies leading to personal computers: The wall, user-generated graphics interface allowed more text lines to appear on a screen... This work was done at the Xerox Palo Alto research center based in Silicon Valley or Xerox PARC.
Tesler was the center of those efforts and was a contributive to the "user-friendly interface" and "processor" throughout his time working at Xerox.
Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC in 1979 and met Tesler. Tesler later recalled the Jobs and told him, "Why didn't you do anything with this technology? You can change the world! ".
After that, Apple became the first to widely use the user graphics interface, as well as the chuot and other features. Tesler left Xerox to work at Apple in 1980 and was promoted to the position of vice president and chief engineer. Here, he contributed to the design of Macintosh computers, QuickTime computers and Lisa computers - one of the first personal computers to use the user interface of graphics. Lisa herself has popularized the familiar copy, paste and redistribution features. Tesler stayed at Apple until 1997. In 2001, he joined Amazon and became the vice president of user experience design.
Until his death, Larry Tesler served as a consultant for many companies such as Western Union, Evernote app for improving user experience on computers and phones.
