Cut, copy and paste (粘贴), these three commands (命令) are often used in computers and phones, and they started with one man: Larry Tesler. 

Tesler became a student at Standford University in 1961, when he was just 16 years old. He started working for Xerox, a company best known for its photocopies (复印机), in 1973. He then moved to Apple in1980. At that time, computers were not "user-friendly". Every program worked differently. Tesler's work, which included developing cut, copy and paste, made computers easier to use for common people.

Cut, copy and paste were based on (基于) the old way of editing (编辑). People would actually cut printed paper with scissors and glue pieces of text in other places on the page. The commands were first built into Apple's Lisa computer in 1983 and are now used in all the computers. 

Tesler left Apple in 1997 and later worked for Amazon, Yahoo and other companies that deal with technology. He died in 2020 at the age of 74, but his work lives on in the computers we use every day.