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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The widespread use of computer ...

The legendary computer typing tutor Mavis Beacon never existed—not really, anyway. She was, as VICE’s Mike Pearl recently explained, a kind of Betty Crocker-like figure conceptualized and cast by ...