[HN Gopher] Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US, t... ___________________________________________________________________ Mavis Beacon was the top typing teacher in the US, then she vanished Author : ducaale Score : 134 points Date : 2022-03-13 15:59 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.independent.co.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (www.independent.co.uk) | [deleted] | cols wrote: | Archive: | https://web.archive.org/web/20220313160742/https://www.indep... | | Mavis Beacon taught me to type. I don't really care if she's real | or not, I'll always have a soft spot for that CD! | tiahura wrote: | iratewizard wrote: | "America is racist" is a narrative sold by racists to sow | racial division. | | Shirkey's principle. Any institution (or career race-baiter) | tasked with solving a problem will instead preserve the | problem so they can continue to solve it. | lozenge wrote: | What year did America go from actually being racist to just | pretending? | tiahura wrote: | I think a strong argument is to be made that in the early | '70s the tide turned and racism became viewed as old | fashioned and embarrassing. | sangnoir wrote: | I think a subtle distinction has to be made: being | _labelled_ a racist became the worst thing ever. Which | has led to absurd scenes where someone conducts | themselves in blatantly racist ways and then says | "That's not who I am". It has become a noun, rather than | a verb | ketzo wrote: | There's a significant divide between "America is racist" | and "America was founded on, and still preserves, many | institutions that are fundamentally biased against some | people." | | I don't know many people who seriously claim that every | single atom of American life is racist. | iratewizard wrote: | People and the institutions they create are fundamentally | biased, period. Race isn't more important than the other | biases because some propaganda you saw on TV says so. | Stop enabling division. | _3u10 wrote: | No actual person thinks this but it's the take away when | you compress it down to memes / read about it in media. | | America has no room for nuance, it's either every police | shooting is justified or every shooting isn't justified. | It's probably not a great way to actually run a country | but it makes for great media sales / entertaining | politics. | andrewzah wrote: | No. In daily life America and Americans are typically | nuanced. Like literally any other country. | | It's the internet that disposes of context and nuance. | syshum wrote: | No the internet can do that just fine, the twitterization | of social media in to short quippy "bumper sicker" took | the worst aspects of politics (sound bites and bumper | stickers") and normalized that in to the "correct" way to | debate or discuss topics. | | Gone where the long form threaded topics of forums, | usenet, etc, replaced with 180 characters quips | bbarnett wrote: | I'm sorry, I didn't get that, it was cut off at 180 | chars. | wizzwizz4 wrote: | Twitter has never had a 180 character limit. It was 140 | characters (based on the 160 character limit of SMS), but | it's now 380 characters. | _3u10 wrote: | Yes well said, that's exactly what I was trying to | convey. | Spooky23 wrote: | I think the meta-commentary re: the current zeitgeist of | misinformation and nonsense. Being inspired to write a | comment like this is probably more revealing of human | character. | umanwizard wrote: | The US isn't some kind of Nazi state. Black people holding | professional jobs has been considered culturally acceptable | for many decades. (And this by no means proves that racism | doesn't exist). | xattt wrote: | My hypothesis is that the groups that were typically | associated with steadfast racist views were typically | technically illiterate, so this intersection with Mavis | Beacon just didn't happen. | pessimizer wrote: | And let's be serious, this is a fictional black typist. | Secretary isn't the most high-status job. Teacher is a bit | more status (she's a typing teacher!), but typist could | also mean data entry, which is significantly worse. | | The US has never had a problem with black servants, but | that's not a indicator of not being racist. | sangnoir wrote: | That makes sense. Polling in the early 90's showed half the | country was against black/white interracial marriages, but | no one had a problem with a black secretary/typist (which | did not disrupt the "social hierarchy" in people's minds) | unboxingelf wrote: | Blank key caps taught me to type | bladegash wrote: | Same here - I would likely be finger pecking to this day if not | for Mavis Beacon. | jrib wrote: | I had Mavis Beacon but AOL Instant Messenger taught me. I later | relearned using gtypist when I switched to dvorak 10 years | later though. | | https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ | Ansil849 wrote: | > I don't really care if she's real or not | | I don't understand comments like this. Why go through the | effort of articulating your lack of interest in a topic? "I | have no intellectual curiosity about this topic, but I figure I | should still comment letting the world know I have no interest | in this". | cjaybo wrote: | "They taught me how to type" sounds a lot more like fond | recollection than disinterest to me, but I guess we all read | things differently. Your way seems needlessly uncharitable, | though! | michaelcampbell wrote: | > I don't understand comments like this. | | Interestingly, I suspect you understand it fully. | gunfighthacksaw wrote: | "I don't really care if" can be replaced with "regardless of | whether" if you have a pathological case of semantic | pedantry. | interestica wrote: | I think you missed the point of the comment. I don't think | this is a lack of interest in the topic per se -- it's | demonstrating that when using the software, there was a clear | separation between the 'teacher' and just using the software. | I had no idea she was a 'real' person (or interpreted as such | anyways) and always presumed it was just a 'character'. | Jaruzel wrote: | I think something is lost in translation here, the OP is | saying that emotionally it doesn't matter to them if she | wasn't real, they still hold her in high regard. | | They are not saying, "I have no interest in this." | HideousKojima wrote: | StarCraft taught me how to type, gotta type fast if you're | going to trash-talk on Battle.Net | jen729w wrote: | Copying my mate's work (hi, mjoc101) at uni taught me to | type. Too many headaches looking at his printout, my screen, | my keyboard, forced me to use whatever tool was available on | the uni *nix systems. | | One of the best things I ever did for myself. If you're | reading this and you don't touch-type, learn. Now. | | (They kicked me out eventually, so nothing good came of the | copying.) | monkeybutton wrote: | ICQ and MSN messenger did it for me. | effingwewt wrote: | Definitely messenger apps that did it for me. Back in the | AOL online CD days! | | No one I knew could type, so I had to learn myself. By the | time it was taught in HS, my habits and muscle memory | weren't having it. I could type 'properly' but far slower, | so I gave up. | | To this day I've never had a RSI from typing (and some of | the marathons were crazy!), and it's rampant among 'proper' | typers. | iszomer wrote: | Are you sure it wasn't all about the APM and macros? :) | | I remember briefly learning to type from a Mavis Beacon book | but practicing on those clicker mechanical keyboards drove my | parents nuts! | interestica wrote: | I had no idea there was a potential "real person" there any more | than I thought Mario/Luigi were real. Maybe I'd never even seen | an image or box to make that connection? I remember that the | software was really useful early on -- and game modes even made | it a bit competitive. | | For a left-field alternative for super young kids (3? 4?) just | being introduced to letters/keyboard try out Typatone | (https://typatone.com/). Get a wireless keyboard and throw it up | on a big screen. Something interesting happens when there's the | added layer of reactive sound tied to what they've typed. It's a | really good way of recognizing letters, and learning where to | find them on a keyboard. And then common words take on a specific | "song". There's probably something to this in an education space | for someone to build on. | ZeroGravitas wrote: | It has been claimed Mario is based on someone that worked for | (edit: rented property to) Nintendo. Not sure I belive that | though. | | https://www.npr.org/2018/11/02/663372770/mario-segale-inspir... | LukeShu wrote: | I've never heard that the character was "based on" Mario | Segale, just named after him. | | It is my dim recollection from reading _Game Over_ by David | Sheff many years ago that the incident when "Segale was said | to have made an impression on his tenants when he allegedly | stormed into Nintendo's offices in Tukwila, Wash., demanding | they catch up on late rent" (as the NPR article writes) | happened when they already had the Donkey Kong cabinets in | their final form. | | The article from Benj Edwards cited at the end of the NPR | article says | | > Legend has it that NOA President Minoru Arakawa noticed | physical similarities between Donkey Kong's short, dark- | haired protagonist and the landlord. So the crew at NOA | nicknamed the character Mario, and it stuck. | | And that seams eminently plausible to me; that someone said | to Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario's creator) "hey, they guys at the | American office have started calling the character 'Mario' | because he looks like our landlord who is named Mario" and | Miyamoto ran with it. | staticassertion wrote: | The best typing teacher was AIM and Runescape. | LukeShu wrote: | If anyone else is confused by some of the years in the article, I | have submitted the following to The Independent: | | Subject: Inaccuracy in article on Mavis Beacon | | The article at | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mavis-beac... | states that The Software Toolworks was "founded in 1990." I | believe this to be a mistake; it does not make sense in the | context of the article discussing things that they did in 1986 | and 1987. Wikipedia tells me that The Software Toolworks was | founded in 1980. | JohnBooty wrote: | I told a coworker that I was dismayed to learn that Mavis Beacon | wasn't real. She had a good laugh at my expense. | | her: "Really??? You thought she was a real person? JOHN. Come | on." | | me: "I thought she was a real person, like Orville Redenbacher. I | didn't know she was made up like Betty Crocker." | | her: "WAIT, BETTY CROCKER WASN'T REAL??" | | oh, the laughs | interestica wrote: | There's probably a list somewhere. Aunt Jemima? Uncle Ben? | Colonel Sanders? Betty Crocker? The Quaker oats guy? | selimthegrim wrote: | Oh boy wait until you hear about the Cream of Wheat guy | namdnay wrote: | Mr Kipling | Jtsummers wrote: | A couple lists from Wikipedia: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_characters_in_. | .. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Male_characters_in_ad. | .. | | Unfortunately they mix the obviously fictional in with the | less obviously fictional (like cartoon characters with more | plausible characters). | ZeroGravitas wrote: | Wendy Thomas is real though. | Jtsummers wrote: | I didn't make the list, just found it. Fortunately, it's | Wikipedia so you can edit it if you want. | lupire wrote: | The name is real (and maybe the portrait is close enough) | but the character in commercials isn't. | TigeriusKirk wrote: | The one I was most surprised to learn was a real person | was Chef Boyardee. | slavik81 wrote: | From Wikipedia: | | > After leaving his position as head chef at the Plaza | Hotel in New York City, Boiardi opened a restaurant | called Il Giardino d'Italia in 1924 at East 9th Street | and Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. The idea for Chef | Boyardee came about when restaurant customers began | asking Boiardi for his spaghetti sauce, which he began to | distribute in milk bottles. Four years later, in 1928, | Boiardi opened a factory and moved production to Milton, | Pennsylvania, where he could grow his own tomatoes and | mushrooms. He decided to name his product "Boy-Ar-Dee" to | help Americans pronounce his name correctly. The first | product to be sold was a "ready-to-heat spaghetti kit" in | 1928. The kit included uncooked pasta, tomato sauce, and | a container of pre-grated cheese. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_Boyardee | asperous wrote: | It says female/male characters in advertising; not | necessarily fictional. | deutschew wrote: | damn i thought those were the founders | lmkg wrote: | Colonel Sanders was the real founder, although not a real | Colonel. | netr0ute wrote: | He was technically a real Colonel, just not a | conventional one. | shoo wrote: | a convolutional kernel, maybe | SaberTail wrote: | He was a Kentucky Colonel: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Colonel | sbuttgereit wrote: | Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 - December | 16, 1980) | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders | dehrmann wrote: | Dave Thomas of Wendy's was also a Kentucky Colonel. | rob74 wrote: | Peter Norton? | userbinator wrote: | He's real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norton | [deleted] | seanmcdirmid wrote: | And then there is John McAfee who passed recently in a | Spanish jail cell. | fuzzer37 wrote: | Was assassinated. | WalterBright wrote: | Back in the 1980s, when my company Zortech was located in | London, my partner set up a "Meet Walter Bright" with the tech | press there. After all, my picture was on the Zortech ads and | the compiler manual. | | When I arrived at the meet & greet, the journalists thought I | was a model (!) hired to be a figurehead. I had to show them my | passport to convince them that was my real name, and answer a | bunch of tech questions to show I knew all about C++ and | compilers. | | It was a very amusing experience for me, especially that some | people thought I was handsome enough to be a model, LOL. | bluefirebrand wrote: | I wonder how handsome you would have to be to play a model | playing yourself. | | This is a great story. I'm wondering if any of them had | techie friends that set them up. | | "I'm going to interview Walter Bright!" | | "Oh yeah? You know that's not a real person, right?" | | I think I would do that if I ever got the chance. "You think | the guy who created Linux is named Linus? Really? Well, okay | I guess" | [deleted] | mwattsun wrote: | When I first got internet in the 90's I became aware of an | art collective that was fronted by a personality name | "Netochka Nezvanova". I got the impression that this kind of | thing was nothing new. Maybe your last name "Bright" and | programming skills were such that they thought you had to be | more than one person! | | https://anthology.rhizome.org/m9ndfukc-0-99 | WalterBright wrote: | They thought "Walter Bright" was a made up marketing name, | like Mr. Goodwrench. | | P.S. I still have the green shirt! | tomcam wrote: | when I finish my next compiler I'm going to hire someone | on Fiverr to steal--I mean, alter slightly--the George | Brazil Plumbing guy (https://www.google.com/search?q=geor | ge+brazil+plumbing&tbm=i...), put him on the website, and | call him Walter Bright just to complete the circle | tomcam wrote: | What a great story. Also how nice is it that at one time | journalists could ask something smart enough to discern your | knowledge of C++ | wdurden wrote: | Ima hafta call baloney on this one ... If WalterBright was | real he would'a wrote a language ... even better than C! | Maybe throw in some memory management. Just sayin' | | Plus, "Zortech" ... wth kind of name is that? Someone | couldn't make this stuff up as fiction! And a journalist that | knew the right question to see if you knew about C plus plus | ... You almost had me til there. | hasmanean wrote: | I just assumed she was a software developer who decided to | teach typing. Then I realized, she doesn't have to code it | herself...maybe she hired someone to program it for her. | | It never crossed my mind that she was not an entrepreneur until | I read this comment. | [deleted] | Aardwolf wrote: | Also featured in a Lazy Game Reviews video: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6d6X4E-3w | serf wrote: | an aside, I miss old Broderbund software. | | I'm no longer of 'in-education' age so my opinion may be way off | , but Broderbund seemed to fill an educational niche that is no | longer as explored as it was. | joshu wrote: | what ever happened to carmen sandiego? | savoytruffle wrote: | Get on it, gumshoes | aceazzameen wrote: | You mean where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? She's at | Netflix. | techsupporter wrote: | All these people want to know, "Where in the World is Carmen | Sandiego?" | | That game show on PBS was my favorite and I was genuinely sad | when Lynne Thigpen died. That show got me into Jeopardy!, and | then into the trivia group I found on a local discussion | forum, and then through a friendship made there into the job | I've had for many years. | | Hit it, Rockapella. | whitej125 wrote: | She was captured in Argentina attempting to steal Iguazu Falls | [0]. Fortunately a couple of super sleuths [1] were tipped off | about the soon-to-be caper by none other than Dr. Brain [2]. | | I miss the educational games of the 90s. | | [0] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego_(video_game_se... | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Mountain! [2] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Dr._Brain | na85 wrote: | We had a copy of Mavis Beacon but I never really used it. What | taught me typing: | | 1. Flirting with the girl I later married over ICQ | | 2. Getting rushed and begging for help in StarCraft 1 | | Both things require timely and efficient typed communication! | kevinventullo wrote: | I believe AIM did more to teach my entire graduating class how | to type than any educational software. | Dalrymple wrote: | My graduating class learned to type by producing thousands of | punch cards on the IBM 026 punch card machine. | vmception wrote: | Trying to keep up with file servers and conversation on IRC | taught me to type fast! | | Sink or swim scenarios work best for me. | na85 wrote: | Yes, the glory days of game rips (sorry, gamez and ripz) on | DALnet channels full of uber-leet color codes and DCC-based | fserv interfaces. | | I miss the old internet. | joshspankit wrote: | You married over ICQ? If so, that's quite notable! | na85 wrote: | No no, I meant the messaging was conducted over ICQ. | good8675309 wrote: | On a somewhat related note, if you're teaching your kids typing | the current Mavis Beacon software has broken DRM purchased | straight from Amazon. I was told by their support to buy it again | directly from their website. I recommend the much superior | Typing.com | etataetaet wrote: | Typing.com and nitrotype are AMAZING tools to learn how to type | riffic wrote: | are people still just now coming to the conclusion this was a | fictional character? yikes. | softwarebeware wrote: | We also really need to find Carmen Sandiego!! :-p | theandrewbailey wrote: | Someone did: Janine LaManna | | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carmen-sandiego-found_n_578e6... | WhiteOwlEd wrote: | Mavis Beacon taught my how to type between 60-75 wpm. The dictate | feature of Microsoft Word within Office 365 gets me roughly to | 100 wpm after corrections. | | Bottom line: Mavis Beacon helped me code faster, but Microsoft | helped me write blogs faster. | jker wrote: | This is always interesting to me: I find that I can't dictate | at all, I need to see the words and read them as I'm writing | them, for some reason. Especially for writing fiction, it's | just hard to imagine saying it out loud, I feel like that would | engage a different and "wrong" part of my brain. | WhiteOwlEd wrote: | When I am coding, I feel the need to "type it out." | | If I am writing blogs or if I'm writing scripts, I find that | I can dictate much faster and then just edit the sentences | afterwards in order to clarify. The process of dictation plus | editing is faster for me than if I were to type out | everything. | dang wrote: | Past appearances by Mavis: | | _Mavis Beacon_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28767251 - | Oct 2021 (4 comments) | | _What 's Mavis Beacon Up to These Days? (2015)_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25530183 - Dec 2020 (58 | comments) | ghaff wrote: | Unfortunately, I never learned to touch type though I'm pretty | fast so long as I'm not copying something. I don't think I ever | touched a typewriter until senior year in high school and touch | typing never seemed a sufficient priority to me to deliberately | learn it. (Shorthand would probably have been useful too at | various times.) | unfocussed_mike wrote: | Next, we track down Waldo and ask him how it feels that people | don't know he actually goes by Wally: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where's_Wally%3F | narrator wrote: | "The Spectacle is not a collection of images but a social | relation among people mediated by images." - Guy Debord | | You could literally write a PhD thesis on this Mavis Beacon thing | by running it through the lense of Debord's "Society of the | Spectacle." | _3u10 wrote: | Through that lens she's more real than most. I loved his idea | that JFK eulogized his own funeral. | oh_sigh wrote: | Out of curiosity, have you ever publicly referred to the | Society of the Spectacle more than 3 months ago? For whatever | reason, I am seeing all sorts of references all over the | internet to Debord and SotS in the past couple months, and I'm | just trying to track down why this is happening. I don't think | this is a yellow car phenomenon because I've been into | Situationism for the past 20 years and am fairly attuned to | references to it that I stumble across. | narrator wrote: | I think the "Contain" podcast (https://podbay.fm/p/contain- | podcast) got me into it originally. It has a lot of guests | who reference stuff like "commodity fetishism" and I just | started looking that up to figure out what they were talking | about and this eventually led to Debord. | | As an aside, The "Contain" podcast is great. Lots of | interviews with lots of unusual intellectual people. | 8b16380d wrote: | Debord has been a well known figure in far right circles for | a while now | dimitrios1 wrote: | I remember at some point in middle school in the early 90s we had | typing instruction in the form of some sort of car drag racing | video game. It was actually quite fun and motivated me to type | correctly! The faster and more accurately you typed, the faster | your car went. And you could use the money you won from winning | to upgrade you car, or purchase faster ones. | | Does anyone remember this? | codingclaws wrote: | I still play: | | https://play.typeracer.com | BenjiWiebe wrote: | That doesn't let you upgrade cars to faster ones though. | cubix wrote: | I guess now I know the story behind this flyer I saw in a Bay | Area shop window a little over a year ago: | https://files.catbox.moe/48giot.jpeg | harel wrote: | Real or not, I owe Mavis my touch typing ability. It's kinda like | the "are we in a simulation" argument - does it matter if we are, | if we can touch type like Mavis Beacon? | gnicholas wrote: | https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%... | dheera wrote: | I'm in my 30s and I grew up at a time in grade school when | computers and internet access were just becoming more and more | popular, but typing wasn't specifically a necessity for school. | | As such I'm EXTREMELY GLAD that I had the choice to learn how to | type on my own and made a conscious choice to learn Dvorak | instead of QWERTY. | | I feel that kids these days are forced into QWERTY as part of | curriculum and I think that's a terrible forced propagation of a | shitty standard. | caymanjim wrote: | There's no good evidence that Dvorak is better for either speed | or RSI. | dheera wrote: | So what? There's no good evidence for QWERTY and it's based | on assumptions about mechanical typewriters that are no | longer true whereas Dvorak is at least based on something | that applies to modern life. | | There's adecnotal evidence of both in favor of Dvorak which | is more than good enough for me. | | Anyway, it was super easy to learn, I was lightyears ahead of | my classmates in touch typing, so I'm happy. | lazide wrote: | Well, if you do something that doesn't match what 90% (or | for Dvorak, more like 99.99%) of society does, especially | if it is in a way that is incompatible, you end up having | to do both ways or suffer significant friction in everyday | life if it is a common skill or requirement. | | It does open some unique niches, but it's also easy to | oversell that advantages while ignoring the disadvantages. | | Dvorak is even less useful than being a leftie (since | lefties still have the same hands in the same orientation), | it's more like if someone switched/mirrored the hands | themselves. | | Which, if everyone had the same setup would be fine. But | since not everyone does, better get used to constantly | switching and adjusting things. | dheera wrote: | > suffer significant friction in everyday life | | I don't. | | > if it is a common skill or requirement | | It almost never is, in my personal experience. | | Dvorak is available as an option on all the major OSes on | a per-user basis. It's literally zero issue. | lazide wrote: | Glad to hear it works for you! | | I travel frequently (well did not that long ago), and | regularly work on a equipment that others use daily. | | I'd get nothing but hassles if I had to change keyboard | layouts, especially since there is so much variation in | keyboards I interact with sometimes that touch typing | gets high error rates at first. | | And if I didn't switch someone's layout back before | leaving, the anger would be non-trivial. | | Most folks I know at some point also need to use a | computer at work, or did at school (but aren't techies), | so not knowing QWERTY isn't going to go well for them. As | would trying to switch keyboard layouts every time they | go somewhere or do something. Most folks have zero time | for that kind of thing. | zamadatix wrote: | I've used QWERTY, Dvorak, Colemak, and CarpalX (and even | Workman for a short while) and have been using CarpalX as | primary for nearly the last decade. I'd say it doesn't really | matter at all which you learn first as by far the vast majority | of what you learn is the motor skills which transfer to using | any layout. Learning a particular layout after you've already | learned how to type takes a miniscule amount of time in | comparison (on the order of 1-2 weeks of use to reach full | proficiency as the original layout regardless of the level of | proficiency that was) while knowing QWERTY remains a handy | fallback given it's never just going to disappear overnight. | awinter-py wrote: | yes carmen sandiego had a similar thing happen | | ppl are still looking | gcheong wrote: | I was never under the impression that she was a real person. I | just assumed she was a marketing persona ala Betty Crocker et al. | vmception wrote: | Fta: you're correct | smegsicle wrote: | Tagbert wrote: | You would be missing the amazing Mavis Staples | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuCF7BtGrEI | RobertMiller wrote: | It was a somewhat popular name for girls in the 30s and 40s. | Mavis Beacon came out in the late 80s, one of the programmers | might well have had a mother or aunt named Mavis. | vmception wrote: | (or just heard the name as not uncommon so it fit when they | pulled it out of their mental random name generator) | lazide wrote: | Probably also somewhere between 'so common it can't be | trademarked' and 'so uncommon it sounds bizarre and not | like it could be a real person'. | boomboomsubban wrote: | >one of the programmers might well have had a mother or | aunt named Mavis. | | Or a typing teacher. | mmcgaha wrote: | Or a dead milkmen album: "somebody kicked my dog Mavis | and I'm gonna find out just who the hell it was" | ralusek wrote: | You're telling me that she's American McGee rather than Carmen | San Diego? Sid Meier rather than Dr. Grordbort? | lupire wrote: | *Sandiego. | | And vice versa. | dudeinjapan wrote: | Francis Bacon teaches metallic transmutation | selimthegrim wrote: | Outside the OJ trial on a sign - "Save the Juice! Bacon Did It" | (playing on the Shakespeare conspiracy theory) | vxNsr wrote: | I don't know anyone who thought mavis beacon was real, this feels | like hype for the documentary and nothing else. | rvz wrote: | Indeed. It is just hype and that's it. | | The people who are investigating over this are trying to turn a | non-issue into an industry problem. | | With them, everything is always a problem with no solutions and | all it is about is just complaining. Especially about a | character that doesn't even exist. Somehow it is a problem. | | But don't worry. Maybe one day, the Mavis Beacon actor might | consider releasing an NFT collection for all her fans. | | Someday. | oh_sigh wrote: | Is this really a topic you've interrogated your friends about? | Why would you know anyone's perspective on Mavis Beacon? | | I thought Mavis Beacon was real back in the day, because why | wouldn't she be? It was just a nice looking lady, not like a | cartoon character who teaches you typing or anything like that. | I assumed maybe she was just a world class typer when I was 10 | or so. | | If it is obvious that Mavis Beacon isn't real to some, I would | love to know how they understand that Mavis is fake, but, say, | the guy on the "Norton Utilities", "Norton Antivirus" is a real | person. | rvz wrote: | There are three things that kids back then should now know that | don't exist: The Tooth-fairy, Santa Claus and Mavis Beacon. | compiler-guy wrote: | Carmen San Diego also. | RobertMiller wrote: | Countless hours of Number Munchers taught me mental arithmetic. | zamadatix wrote: | That site of people trying to find her has some great 90s | internet vibes https://seekingmavisbeacon.com/. No blinking | sadly. | owlninja wrote: | The 'Future Thot Leader's site is interesting as well | | https://www.jazminjones.com/ | cols wrote: | Wow this was really cool! A little slowish but very creative | and different from the standard website experience. Highly | enjoyed poking around. | unsupp0rted wrote: | > Incarnating Mavis was a Haitian-born woman called Renee | L'Esperance, spotted behind a cosmetics counter at Saks Fifth | Avenue by one of the men behind the company that sold Mavis | Beacon Teaches Typing. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-13 23:00 UTC)