Generations learned to type using the Mavis Beacon software—and had no idea she wasn’t a real person. But what about the model used for her image, who vanished from the public eye? Editor-at-Large, ...

Mavis Beacon taught the world to type. Starting in the late 1980s, a software program featuring the eponymous instructor drilled computer users on their keyboard skills, selling more than 10 million ...

Jazmin Jones knows what she did. “If you’re online, there’s this idea of trolling,” Jones, the director behind Seeking Mavis Beacon, said during a recent panel for her new documentary. “For this ...

“Seeking Mavis Beacon” is a documentary about (stick with me here) seeking Mavis Beacon. But, what it is not (and stick with me here, too) is a documentary about finding Mavis Beacon. Because whether ...

Mavis Beacon's Typing Tutor (version 11.0) is arguably the best of its type (geddit?) on the market. Having installed and run this software I feel it is the benchmark other typing tutors should be ...

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