The Story Behind GUI: Xerox PARC, Apple, and Microsoft

This article recounts the historical rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, tracing how Xerox PARC’s groundbreaking GUI, Ethernet, and object‑oriented innovations inspired the Macintosh and Windows, and how commercial decisions, legal battles, and visionary leadership shaped modern personal computing.

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The Story Behind GUI: Xerox PARC, Apple, and Microsoft

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How Larry Tesler Shaped the Copy‑Paste Feature That Powers Every Computer

Larry Tesler, a pioneering computer scientist who worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon and Yahoo, is credited with popularizing cut, copy, paste and other user‑friendly commands, influencing modern GUIs and leaving a lasting legacy in computing despite being less known than Jobs or Gates.

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How Larry Tesler Shaped the Copy‑Paste Feature That Powers Every Computer