70s-80s Lego kid here, and you are so unbelievably wrong on this I question if you ever had Lego as a kid in the 80s

I vividly recall having many tree "bricks", which were a solid green tree.
These could literally be nothing BUT a tree, you couldn't even stack other bricks on said tree.
It had exactly one function, which was to plug into a baseplate and stand there looking like a tree.

Larry Tesler, Computer Scientist Who Created Cut, Copy, and Paste, Dies At 74 (gizmodo.com)39
Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @05:00PM from the rest-in-peace dept
>> Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who created the terms "cut," "copy," and "paste," has passed away at the age of 74.
>> Gizmodo reports:
>>>> Born in 1945 in New York, Tesler went on to study computer science at Stanford University, and after graduation he dabbled in ...

Maybe Google buys info from the DMV and other sources?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9SMH4YbNfI