History of Multimedia Systems

Newspaper were perhaps the first mass communication medium to employ

Multimedia -- they used mostly text, graphics, and images.

In 1895, Gugliemo Marconi sent his first wireless radio transmission at Pontecchio,
Italy. A few years later (in 1901) he detected radio waves beamed across the Atlantic.
Initially invented for telegraph, radio is now a major medium for audio broadcasting.

Television was the new media for the 20th century. It brings the video and has since
changed the world of mass communications.

Some of the important events in relation to Multimedia in Computing include:

 1945 - Bush wrote about Memex

 1967 - Negroponte formed the Architecture Machine Group at MIT
 1969 - Nelson & Van Dam hypertext editor at Brown
 Birth of The Internet
 1971 - Email
 1976 - Architecture Machine Group proposal to DARPA: Multiple
Media
 1980 - Lippman & Mohl: Aspen Movie Map
 1983 - Backer: Electronic Book
 1985 - Negroponte, Wiesner: opened MIT Media Lab
 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web to CERN
(European Council for Nuclear Research)
 1990 - K. Hooper Woolsey, Apple Multimedia Lab, 100 people, educ.
 1991 - Apple Multimedia Lab: Visual Almanac, Classroom MM Kiosk
 1992 - the first M-bone audio multicast on the Net
 1993 - U. Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications:
NCSA Mosaic
 1994 - Jim Clark and Marc Andreesen: Netscape
 1995 - JAVA for platform-independent application development. Duke
is the first applet.
 1996 - Microsoft, Internet Explorer.
  What are the 5 types of multimedia?
 The Five Multimedia Elements[edit] Text, image, audio, video, and animation
are the five multimedia elements
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digital library
A digital library is a collection of documents in organized electronic form,
available on the Internet or on CD-ROM (compact-disk read-only memory) disks.
Depending on the specific library, a user may be able to access magazine
articles, books, papers, images, sound files, and videos.

A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to
print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers.[1] The digital content may be
stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. A digital library is a type of
information retrieval system.
DIGITAL LIBRARIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF USEFUL RESOURCES Concept and Theory of a Digital Library:
“Based on the idea of a library or information service providing virtual anywhere/anytime electronic
access through the Internet to documents and or services.” A digital library will direct users to electronic
collections, such as research papers or video clips that document in great detail the history of a
particular locale or area or that offer a unique thematic perspective on a subject. The main benefit of
constructing a digital library is the ability to provide 24 hour, remote access to high demand items from
multiple users worldwide.