On December 8, 2018 (November 2, 2018, the inventor of copy-and-paste, Evelyn Berelson, passed away. On December 8, 2018, Evelyn Berezin (April 12, 1925 to December 8, 2018), who invented the first computer word processor in history, passed away at the age of 93. Evelyn Berezin, the old lady who invented "copy-and-paste", passed away. Her invention once liberated secretarial clerks from repeated labor and laid the foundation for later document editing software such as Word. ¡ø Picture from: computerhistory.org Evelyn Berezin, born in 1925, turned from a computer engineer and founder of a software company to an investor in a technology company. However, what benefited most people was the computer word processor she invented, which included basic document editing functions such as "copy-paste" at that time. ¡ø Common work scenes of clerks at that time. Picture from: The movie Duties of ASecretariat (1947) In the 1960s, text workers such as clerks and secretaries often needed to make multiple copies of the same content. But office equipment at that time only supported printing copy by copy. If an error occurred in the document, you had to start all over again. Such a device is simply anti-human today. Evelyn worked for the Underwood Typewriter Company, the largest typewriter company in the United States at the time, and later joined the computer software development company Teleregister. During her nearly ten years at Teleregister, Evelyn used then-new transistor technology to develop a flight reservation system for airline United Airlines. The system could communicate with 60 cities with a response time of only one second. It was one of the largest computer systems in the world at the time and had been running without problems for 11 years. She also developed the first computerized banking system. In addition, the computer systems she participated in designing also include the weapon target calculator used by the U.S. Department of Defense, a system to calculate the amount of bet on each horse at the racetrack, etc. In 2015, in an interview with the media, Evelyn described the reasons for her starting a business at the time. She said that even though she was outstanding in the computer field, she was still subject to gender discrimination at the time and could not be promoted to management. At the same time, she believed that typewriters had become an important office tool, but these cumbersome and repetitive typing tasks were still quite inefficient, so she decided to start her own business.¡ø Early "Data Secretary" pictures from: computerhistory. orgIn 1968, Evelyn resigned from Teleregister. The following year, she founded her own computer company, Redactron Corporation, to provide computer system software services to customers around the world, the most famous of which is the Data Secretary. The "Data Secretary" did not have a screen in the early days. It was as big as a small refrigerator and included a keyboard for input. The entire product was preset with 13 basic document editing functions such as deletion, copying, pasting, and cutting. Later, the iterative "data secretary" gradually added to the display.¡ø Photo from: These revolutionary functions of the New York Times were later imitated by major computer companies such as Microsoft and IBM, and evolved into the Word documents, GoogleDoc, etc. we use now, becoming functions we take for granted. Redactron, which had up to 500 employees, was later acquired in 1976 by computer maker Burroughs, one of IBM's competitors at the time. That same year, Evelyn was included in Bloomberg's Businessweek magazine's "Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs in the United States" list, and she was the only leader from a technology company on the list.