Yesterday something happened to my clipboard and suddenly I could no longer cut and paste. I had a ton of stuff to do and I didn’t want to waste time by rebooting. So I trudged ahead and let me tell you, I was completely lost without it! I had no idea how much I cut and paste until I lost the ability. It made me realize that whoever came up with the idea should be awarded a great prize!
Last night I had a dream I found out what happened to Heiko. He was attacked in his home by a robber and suffered a significant head trauma. The blow to the head caused him to grow an ugly 70’s ‘stach and speak in a stutter. He also traded his little flat for a gigantic converse sneaker. Although I felt very sorry for him, I also felt lucky and thought, “Thank goodness he didn’t want to marry me!”
Xerox prolly invented it along with the GUI but slick Steve Jobs sweet talked Xerox into giving it to him. GO APPLE!
I am pretty positive that back in 84-85, I was using Cut & Paste with Bankstreet Writer on my old Vic20 and later Commodore 64.
Which you almost certainly were. I wasn’t using Bank Street, but it worked in PaperClip for the C64/128.
The other day I suddenly lost the ability to use a Westlaw function that cuts and pastes text from cases along with the case citation, which is enormously handy. After calling customer support, I tracked it down-somehow a security setting in IE had changed all by itself, disabling the ability to cut and paste script on websites. Once in a blue moon something like this has happened to me with IE. Hell, I didn’t even know that security setting was there until I called. It’s disconcerting to have the something like that change all by itself. Thankfully, at least as far as I’ve been able to determine it wasn’t due to a virus.