Inventor of copy and paste dies

The inventor of copy and paste, Larry Tesler, has died.

Mr Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to the vast majority of people.

Tesla’s innovations – which included the cut, copy and paste commands made personal computer became simple to learn and use.

Mr Tesler was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1945, and studied at Stanford University in California.

He was aged 74.