Mavis Beacon, of “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing” fame, was never a real person; her image, however, became an icon of the software created by Software Toolworks. Les Crane, a former disc jockey and host ...

One of the most venerable typing tutors celebrates its quarter-century mark. Back in the late 1980s, I sold software and hardware at anow-defunct store in NYC; one of our best-sellers was “Mavis ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Touch-typing – or keyboarding, as it is more commonly called nowadays – involves using all the fingers in a standard pattern to hit the correct keys without looking at them. Back in the day, typing ...

Though the name "Mavis Beacon" might not mean much to modern-day kids, to those who came of age in the late 1980s and 1990s, it surely does. "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was a software program ...

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 ...

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