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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThree Words that Have Changed the World for Most People. Can You Guess them? Ok Look now!!
Changed the world in the last 35 years or so.........just in the last 35 to 40 years for most of us....... Did you get them right? Or did you get them wrong?
3 WORDS ARE:................."Copy and Paste"
and Yes, I am .........coo- coo ..What else is there to say with a post like this?.
Well.................I tried to add a little humor to the lounge ........Yes, I know...It is... very little.
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Three Words that Have Changed the World for Most People. Can You Guess them? Ok Look now!! (Original Post)
Stuart G
Jul 2022
OP
Years ago, I taught computer classes. I would jokingly tell the students, it's "copy and v-aste."
Earth-shine
Jul 2022
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. Darn I guessed "Release the hounds". n/t
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)2. As they say....."You can't get them all" ......no more text....!!!
niyad
(113,348 posts)3. donald john trump. gop.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)4. Well.............you tried .....A ++ for trying..
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)5. 54 years... not 35
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Demonstration of a "mouse" and cut/copy and paste, WYSIWYG, networking, etc.
Demonstration of a "mouse" and cut/copy and paste, WYSIWYG, networking, etc.
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)6. Much too long to watch this one.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)9. you really should watch the first few minutes.
It is a landmark demo for the computer industry.
BTW, both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs went to Xerox PARC and got many of their ideas from the system that resulted from this initial demo (Smalltalk, etc).
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)7. "Well fuck me!"
Baggies
(503 posts)8. I guessed "Paint My House"
FSogol
(45,488 posts)10. "Hold my beer"
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)11. Years ago, I taught computer classes. I would jokingly tell the students, it's "copy and v-aste."
That's why it's [ctrl][v] instead of [ctrl][p].