Though the name "Mavis Beacon" might not mean much to modern-day kids, to those who came of age in the late 1980s and 1990s, it surely does. "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" was a software program ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just the other day, I was working at the information desk when a boy walked up and asked me how he could look up titles. I took him over to the online catalog and showed him the search box, how to ...

But who is the woman behind the program? As Adrienne Hankin, public relations director for tech company Mindscape, told the New York Times in 1998: "Mavis is the Betty Crocker of software" Though the ...