Full-page newspaper advertisements, newsletters, posters, and virtually all other types of printed material were created by this method.

Items, including photos, illustrations, and typeset copy, would be cut with X-acto knives or scissors, and rubber-cemented in place on the illustration board. If an item was too small or large, a photostat copy was made to the correct size. T-squares and triangles were employed to line everything up.

Special “pick-ups” were used to clean up excess rubber cement. Editing marks were made with a special blue pencil.

When finished, the entire project was then placed onto a large camera, and a film negative was created from it prior to going to press. The camera could not pick up the marks done with the blue pencil, so they were invisible on the finished piece.

It was time-consuming and cumbersome, but that was the only method, and that’s where the terms originated.

Cut and paste is therefore not the same as copy and paste (btw if you’re interested, in MS Office the key combinations are Ctrl + C for Copy and Ctrl + X for cut. Paste is Ctrl + V in both cases).

for a visual example: a note made of letters cut from a newspaper will be done by cutting and pasting (the letters in question won’t be in the original newspaper anymore) while if you copy a mate’s notes (using a copying machine) after being absent at school for a day, your mate will still have his notes, while you can paste them in your own notebook too if you wanted.

I hope this helped.

It comes from the old newspaper layouts – you’d cut a section of text and paste it into place to make the page layout complete.

In word processing, if you have a paragraph (or sentence, or word or whatever) you wanted to MOVE, you’d cut it (remove it and copy it to the clipboard) then past it in the new location.

On the other hand, if you wanted to REPRODUCE the text, you’d copy it to the clipboard without removing it, and then paste it where you want to.

So, cut and paste is correct.

Cut and paste takes out the text ane.d you can paste until you copy something else

You can do it either way, cut or copy. It depends if you want to move it or copy it whether you cut or copy before pasting.

when we didn’t have pcs

we would actually sometimes cut and paste, with scissors and glue

like cc, means carbon copy, they actually had some black paper that would make a copy when you typed or wrote, just from pressure