Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, released in 1987 and developed by Software Toolworks, is the quintessential typing game. It wasn't the first typing game, but it was among the first. Mavis Beacon Teaches ...

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, ...

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 ...

Role models come in all shapes and sizes, invariably saying more about the nature of influencing than the person setting the example. A hearty thank-you, then, to pioneering computer-age figure Mavis ...

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 ...

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 ...