Larry Tesler, Apple employee who created cut-and-paste, dead at 74

Computer scientist and user interface guru Larry Tesler, a key figure at Apple during its early years, died Monday at the age of 74. Tesler in 1979 showed Apple co-founder Steve Jobs around Xerox PARC, including the tour in which Jobs and a handful of other Apple employees got to see Xerox’s Alto computer in action. The computer featured icons, windows, folders, a mouse, pop-up menus, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor, Ethernet-based local networking, network-based printin