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 ...
The brains behind Neon's genre-bending documentary tell IndieWire about the limits of representation and their complicated thoughts on deep fakes. If you learned to type in the 1980s or ’90s, there’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
Regarding her search for the "real" Mavis Beacon, digital artist Jazmin Jones says: "We want to hear from you." Credit: JAZMIN JONES / OLIVIA MCKAYLA ROSS / JULES RETZLAFF / OWEN SMITH CLARK / IAN ...
The new documentary "Seeking Mavis Beacon" dives into the story of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a software program first developed in the late 1980s. (Courtesy of Neon) The new documentary "Seeking ...
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 ...
If you learned to type in the 1980s or ’90s, there’s a decent chance you had some help from Mavis Beacon. The fictional avatar was the face of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a bestselling series of ...