Those of you who have been using computers for 15 years or so will be glad to know that Mavis Beacon still Teaches Typing. Mavis looks as good as ever. Actually, she doesn’t look like the Mavis I ...

Many of us have grown up with Mavis Beacon, the computer typing teacher at the center of her self-titled games. But who is she and where did she go? The upcoming documentary, Seeking Mavis Beacon, ...

A generation of adults learned how to type thanks to Mavis Beacon. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, an educational software program, launched in 1987 and quickly became a bestseller. To this day, adults ...

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I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When the filmmaker Jazmin Jones was growing up, she thought of Mavis Beacon—the face of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a popular educational game first released in ...

My first experiences with typing tutors were frustrating, and as a six-year-old, they were my nemesis. Sessions with the first program I tried often ended in me bashing my rather diminutive fists ...

Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross investigate Black representation in the Neon-backed documentary out this summer. As the documentary tells us, L’Esperance was spotted working a counter at a Los ...

Two digital sleuths set out to find the woman who lent her image to computer software in this scattered documentary. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

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