User contributions for Tesler
A user with 99 edits. Account created on 15 March 2005.
2 May 2016
- 13:1013:10, 2 May 2016 diff hist +1 m Smalltalk →Further reading: Corrected the page number of "The Smalltalk Environment"
- 13:0213:02, 2 May 2016 diff hist +293 Smalltalk →Further reading: Added an article I wrote for the same issue of Byte as the Goldberg and Ingalls citations
23 November 2014
- 17:1617:16, 23 November 2014 diff hist −4 Chorded keyboard →History: Deleted an off-topic sentence about the mouse that contradicted the previous sentence. Replaced it with a consistent and correct sentence.
7 August 2014
- 01:0601:06, 7 August 2014 diff hist +58 IPad →History: Clarified the connection between ARM and Acorn and the timing of the ARM spinout.
19 May 2014
- 22:3322:33, 19 May 2014 diff hist −6 m Larry Tesler Undid grammatical and factual vandalism committed 8 Mar 2014 by an anonymous editor and made other spelling and grammar fixes. Changed "finish" back to "end" in a course title.
- 21:5921:59, 19 May 2014 diff hist −8 m Richard Jones (economist) Unlinked consisting, for which there is no page. I left as links other words that this anonymous editor bracketed at 04:03, 15 February 2014 because they do go to real pages.
26 April 2014
- 06:1006:10, 26 April 2014 diff hist −2 m Path analysis (computing) e
30 March 2014
- 19:0419:04, 30 March 2014 diff hist −244 Apple Lisa →Etymology: www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=52 is archived on Wayback Machine where I cannot find Raskin's alleged opinion. And Jef was never an Apple VP. I edited out both.
- 18:4218:42, 30 March 2014 diff hist +661 Talk:History of the graphical user interface No edit summary
26 March 2014
- 22:3422:34, 26 March 2014 diff hist +202 Cut, copy, and paste →Popularization: Clarified the first paragraph.
- 22:1122:11, 26 March 2014 diff hist +87 Cut, copy, and paste →Early methods: Deleted "AKA "the clipboard" because those early editors did not call it that. Added a sentence to explain where "the clipboard" first appeared.
21 March 2014
- 22:1022:10, 21 March 2014 diff hist −1 m Donald D. Chamberlin →Biography: Fixed a misspelling of his surname (there was an extra 'n' at the front of the bio)
6 March 2014
- 15:2915:29, 6 March 2014 diff hist +174 Larry Tesler Addressed longstanding (since July 2013) "Citation needed" for copy and paste by citing my clarifying 2012 article in an ACM magazine. The article cites various primary and secondary sources.
- 14:4214:42, 6 March 2014 diff hist −55 Larry Tesler Removed my Gorilla Foundation affiliation because it ended in 2013.
25 February 2014
- 07:4607:46, 25 February 2014 diff hist +995 Talk:Post-it note →History
15 December 2013
- 20:0920:09, 15 December 2013 diff hist +863 Talk:Out-of-box experience →Origin of the term: new section
4 November 2013
- 20:2720:27, 4 November 2013 diff hist +14 m AI effect →AI is whatever hasn't been done yet: Corrected a dead link to my CV.
- 20:2320:23, 4 November 2013 diff hist −83 Larry Tesler →External links: Deleted obsolete link to the Gorilla Foundation board members page. I am no longer on that board.
6 October 2013
- 21:1921:19, 6 October 2013 diff hist 0 m Subvertising →History: Changed .' to '. for legibility.
- 21:1721:17, 6 October 2013 diff hist 0 m Subvertising →History: To avoid nested double quotes changed an inner pair to single quotes.
- 21:1421:14, 6 October 2013 diff hist +150 Subvertising →History: Corrected what appeared to be an errant and unintentional paste of "halted the process"
21 July 2013
- 16:5916:59, 21 July 2013 diff hist 0 m I, Robot Changed "Imbd" to "IMDb".
- 16:5616:56, 21 July 2013 diff hist 0 m Paul Nicholls (actor) Changes all four occurrences of IMBD or Imbd or imbd to IMDb.
- 16:5116:51, 21 July 2013 diff hist 0 m Aman Dhaliwal Changed all three occurrences of IMBD or imbd to IMDb.
- 16:4816:48, 21 July 2013 diff hist 0 m National Lampoon's Class Reunion Changed all three occurrences of IMBD to IMDb.
- 16:4116:41, 21 July 2013 diff hist 0 m Adam Leipzig Changed all five occurrences of IMBD.com to IMDb.com.
23 June 2013
- 11:5411:54, 23 June 2013 diff hist +4 Joseph F. Traub Corrected another "again serving as chair [of CSTB]" by adding 2009 retirement
- 11:5111:51, 23 June 2013 diff hist +4 Joseph F. Traub →Selected honors and distinctions: Added CSTB chair retirement date (2009)
- 11:4911:49, 23 June 2013 diff hist −10 Joseph F. Traub Changed dead nationalacademies.org links (www7. -> sites.); added CSTB retirement year (2009)
12 May 2013
- 16:3016:30, 12 May 2013 diff hist +18 High-density polyethylene →Applications: Added Stone Paper, which was identified as an orphan and referred to this topic
13 March 2013
- 13:0413:04, 13 March 2013 diff hist +30 Larry Tesler Enea and I never implemented Compel. Copy/paste appeared in Gypsy (with Tim Mott) before Smalltalk. Replaced an obsolete URL.
31 March 2012
- 06:2706:27, 31 March 2012 diff hist +79 Gerald Estrin Added death date and place to infobox. He was 93 years old.
30 January 2012
- 23:2723:27, 30 January 2012 diff hist −3 m Suzanne Bonamici →Elections: Fixed typo: changed "17th Senate District 17" to "17th Senate District"
15 November 2011
- 18:1118:11, 15 November 2011 diff hist +22 IPad →Digital Rights Management: Dated Sweeting's quote. Corrected the tense. Changed text copied from the NPR report to a paraphrase.
- 17:4117:41, 15 November 2011 diff hist −200 Acorn Computers →Final restructuring and Element 14 Ltd: Removed undocumented assertion that ARM was led to "consider taking action" against Acorn.
4 November 2011
- 20:2520:25, 4 November 2011 diff hist −1,074 G-Star Raw Replaced ad copy titled "Brand History" by objective if scant information labeled "Profile" and "Links".
19 October 2011
- 14:3914:39, 19 October 2011 diff hist +366 Talk:Cut, copy, and paste →Origin: I corrected my mistaken memory that the Lisa used Command-Z for Undo.
21 August 2011
- 21:5921:59, 21 August 2011 diff hist +712 Gypsy (software) Changed an uncertain account of Bravo's 1975 Move operation to a documented description of Bravo's 1976 Copy operation. Mentioned the three-button mouse. Copy edits.
- 20:3720:37, 21 August 2011 diff hist +2,530 Gypsy (software) Corrected various misconceptions and added examples of the mode-modeless difference.
15 August 2011
- 06:2006:20, 15 August 2011 diff hist −349 List of recessions in the United States →Great Depression onwards: Deleted an incomplete, uncorroborated entry called "Panic of 2011" that had a start date too recent to have been officially declared a recession
29 January 2011
- 17:5917:59, 29 January 2011 diff hist −142 Albatross (metaphor) The purported definition did not square with the current one in the cited dictionary. And one word, "egostatic", is not even in that dictionary. Instead, I defined it myself.
13 October 2010
- 04:2504:25, 13 October 2010 diff hist +753 Talk:AI effect →Article and getting better quality into the problem: Added and explained what I believe I said on this subject 40+ years ago--which was misquoted 30 years ago.
12 October 2010
- 22:5622:56, 12 October 2010 diff hist +2,097 John C. Dvorak →Controversy: Added a 1991 example with erroneous predictions (disclosure: In the Sci Am issue that Dvorak critiqued, I authored an article he did not mention).
18 September 2010
- 23:5623:56, 18 September 2010 diff hist +70 Smalltalk →External links: Added a link to the BYTE special issue and deleted "Smalltalk is for people who have no life"
- 15:3415:34, 18 September 2010 diff hist +481 Digital Millennium Copyright Act →Vernor v. Autodesk: Added the month and year of the 2008 decision and news about the 2010 decision.
8 September 2010
- 06:1706:17, 8 September 2010 diff hist +903 Talk:Kai-Fu Lee Noted a Talk anachronism. Raised questions about the list of products his groups developed at Apple.
29 August 2010
- 22:2322:23, 29 August 2010 diff hist −18 m Press TV Deleted a duplicate section heading (Competitors)
29 June 2010
- 07:0407:04, 29 June 2010 diff hist +1 m AI effect Linked to Michael Swaine instead of the incorrect Michael Swain.
25 June 2010
- 16:3316:33, 25 June 2010 diff hist +10 Larry Tesler →See also: Changed a dead link to a live one
- 16:2816:28, 25 June 2010 diff hist +62 Larry Tesler Corrected my nickname and my current employment.
