Adrienne Hankin, public relations director for tech company Mindscape told the 'New York Times' in 1998: "Mavis is the Betty ...

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 ...

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 ...

For anyone who grew up learning how to type from Mavis Beacon (back in the day when computer programs were advertised in catalogs and came in over-sized boxes), this news will come to you as a bit of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Years ago, back in the days when there were "mainframe" computers but very few "home" computers, a typing teacher brought her brand of instruction to the home-computer monitor. It was late 1987, and ...

For millions of people, their first introduction to a keyboard came by way of Mavis Beacon. The software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was first released in 1987 as a tool to train new computer users on ...

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 ...