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2. Seeking Mavis Beacon - Wikipedia

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

3. 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.

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’ 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 ...

7. ‘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 ...

8. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog - Wikipedia

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   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. " The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy DOG " is an English-language pangram – a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet. The phrase is commonly used for touch-typing practice, testing typewriters and computer keyboards, displaying examples of fonts, and other applications ...

9. ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Documentary in the Works at Neon - AOL

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   Beacon’s computer software program helped define the digital age by teaching a generation to type. “Neon has been a perfect home for this project,” Jones said in a statement.