{"id":2759,"date":"2020-02-19T09:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2020-02-19T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:31:39","slug":"larry-tesler-1945-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2759\/larry-tesler-1945-2020","title":{"rendered":"Larry Tesler (1945-2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=22361282\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Larry_Tesler_Smiles_at_Whisper.jpeg-400x267.jpeg' alt='Larry Tesler' class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>In Memoriam: Lawrence G. &#8220;Larry&#8221; Tesler (1945-2020),<br \/> inventor of Copy\/Paste at Xerox PARC, member of Apple Lisa team,<br \/> human-computer interaction expert<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tesler was a giant in the field of human-computer interaction, having pioneered modeless interfaces at Xerox PARC and carried those over to Apple as part of the Lisa team.  While at PARC, he and Timothy Mott created a text editor called Gypsy that included the first implementation of the now-common Copy and Paste features for moving blocks of information easily within a document. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scobleizer\/status\/1230020803556564993?s=20\">According to Robert Scoble<\/a>, Tesler was also on the committee at Apple that decided to re-hire Steve Jobs in the mid-1990s.  He will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memoriam: Lawrence G. &#8220;Larry&#8221; Tesler (1945-2020), inventor of Copy\/Paste at Xerox PARC, member of Apple Lisa team, human-computer interaction expert Tesler was a giant in the field of human-computer interaction, having pioneered modeless interfaces at Xerox PARC and carried those over to Apple as part of the Lisa team. While at PARC, he and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,42,21,5,10],"tags":[1668,1669,101,354,1667,1257,1664,512,1665,105,1666],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-memorials","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements","category-computers","tag-1668","tag-1669","tag-apple","tag-apple-lisa","tag-copy-and-paste","tag-gypsy","tag-larry-tesler","tag-memorial","tag-robert-scoble","tag-steve-jobs","tag-xerox-parc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}