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source: mastodon
date: 2020-10-26 14:47:01.90 +00
title: "Mastodon post from October 26, 2020, 105101631279796121"
post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/105101631279796121
post_id: 105101631279796121
tags:
  - mastodon
---
the guys who developed “copy and paste” worked at xerox when they did it, and yet, they didn’t call it “xeroxing”, which is what everyone was calling “copying” at the time