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2. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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   mavisbeacon.com. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.

3. Seeking Mavis Beacon - Wikipedia

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   Country. United States. Language. English. Box office. $52,897 [1][2] Seeking Mavis Beacon is a 2024 American documentary film directed by Jazmin Jones, [3] which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. [4] The film is distributed by Neon [5] and is the director's directorial debut.

4. Review: 'Seeking Mavis Beacon' tracks down a cyberghost who ...

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   The kick is that Mavis Beacon isn’t a real person. But she resoundingly was one to the countless Black millennials who learned how to type from a software game launched in 1987 that featured the ...

5. Mavis Beacon (character) - Wikipedia

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   Fame. Mavis Beacon has been seen as groundbreaking for being one of the first computer instruction characters and for being a female African-American embodiment of computer software. Throughout the 1990s, Mavis Beacon served as the virtual typing instructor at numerous U.S. schools. As of 1998, she had instructed 6,000,000 school children. [3]

6. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: Thoughtful Doc Pursues an ...

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   Jazmin Renée Jones’ “Seeking Mavis Beacon” isn’t your typical kind of quest movie. Premiering in the NEXT section at Sundance, the format-defying film follows the nonbinary Black ...

7. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Director Jazmin Jones Investigates the ...

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   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 ...

8. The Typing of the Dead - Wikipedia

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   Sega NAOMI. The Typing of the Dead[a] is an arcade game that was developed by WOW Entertainment and published by Sega for the NAOMI hardware. The game was released in Japanese arcades in 1999 and was ported to the Sega Dreamcast in 2001 by Smilebit. A Microsoft Windows version was released in 2000 and a PlayStation 2 port followed in 2004.

9. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’: Neon To Produce Jazmin Jones Doc

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   Beacon, a character created for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing line of computer software, was the most influential Black woman in technology right up until the day she vanished. Jones’ film ...