![]() ![]() "We just said that she was our symbol of excellence, and that became more of a marketing slogan," Joe Abrams, who ran Software Toolworks with Walt Bilofsky at the time, explains. (It was later acquired by Pearson, the educational media behemoth.) Many over the decades came to believe in her as a living, breathing teacher and the folks at Software Toolworks didn't try too hard to clarify that wasn't so. "Mavis" was simply the image on the cover of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a software program developed by Software Toolworks in the 1980s. As Jim once complimented Pam, arguably one of the most famous characters ever to hold down a typing-centric job: "Mavis Beacon doesn't even type 90!" In the many years since, she's come to represent excellence in typing, used as a shorthand for speed everywhere from the Tonight Show to The Office. Her creators named her Mavis Beacon and she would go on to teach a generation to type with her trademark tranquility while coaching millions of students through the basics of QWERTY. The world's most famous typing teacher was born in a garage in Sherman Oaks, Calif., more than three decades ago. ![]() Grab your magnifying glass and get ready to investigate as Mashable uncovers Big/Little Mysteries. ![]()
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