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July 8

Yatta Explains How Copy+Paste Was Invented

  • yatta: i need to look up my old blog posts
  • yatta: b/c i used to type them into my blog.
  • yatta: a long time ago
  • ellie: you would TYPE them?
  • ellie: you're not that old before copy and paste was invented
  • yatta: copy and paste was invented in 2005
  • yatta: don't make fun. back then, all we had was 'copy'
  • yatta: we would copy shit but not have anything we could do with it
  • yatta: it'd take up all 256MB of our RAM
  • yatta: we'd sit there and think, daymn. what am i gonna do with all of that shit I just copied.
  • yatta: and then one day, a man by the name Lucious Paste invented a technique we all came to call 'Pasteogramy'
  • yatta: or 'Paste' for short.
  • yatta: thus, 'pasting' was born
  • yatta: but it wasn't until a patent dispute between Marcielo Copy and Lucious Paste was settled for the sum of $500 and a chicken that 'copy' and 'paste' could be combined into a single action.
  • yatta: Hence the 'copy and paste' we all take for granted.
  • ellie: ....
  • ellie: your kids are going to be really bored one day.