Rather than complain today about the new host of errors I received from Steemit (or setting a new record for attempts required to submit a single reply,) I thought I'd take this opportunity to thank one Larry Tesler, credited inventor of the clipboard and copy/paste functions.
After all, on days like today, he is saving me a lot of trouble!
Does this constitute complaining?
Sacred creator of Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and Ctrl+X, I bow my head in acknowledgment of your deep wisdom. Truly, among productivity creations, yours was well ahead of its time. Given that it's time was 1973, I think I'm in the clear there.
Behold, the first result when I googled "computer from 1973". RIP Wang Computing.
Larry came up with the idea of quickly copying strings of text to a system's operating memory while working on the Gypsy project for Xerox. Gypsy was the "first document preparation system based on a mouse and graphical user interface," so arguably all aspects of this project were rather trailblazing.
Oops, how did that get there?
I would not be surprised to learn I had copy and pasted literally millions of characters. The tool has saved my countless hours of lost work, streamlining the process of making backups I never thought I'd need (but totally did, thanks Steemit!)
English muthafucker, do you speak it?
They should take away Obama's Nobel and dedicate it to this man, post-haste.
It would sort of work if "Tessler" is more like "Tess-eh-ler"...
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