week 2

• Multimedia - is the art of combining various media formats, like text, audio, images, animations, and video, to create engaging and interactive experiences.
• Cave Paintings - These prehistoric artworks combined visuals with storytelling, potentially serving educational and cultural purposes and more
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs - These symbols incorporated pictograms, phonograms, and ideograms, conveying information through a combination of visual and linguistic elements.
• Medieval Manuscripts - These often-included illustrations, calligraphy, and decorative elements, combining texts and visuals to enhance communication and aesthetic appeal.
• Newspapers - The printing press revolutionized communication, allowing newspapers to integrate text and images to inform and engage in public
• Radio 1906 - Introduced the transmission of audio content over long distances, enabling widespread dissemination of information and entertainment through sound.
• Television 1927 - Pioneered the combination of moving visuals and synchronized sound, creating a new and immersive form of media.
• Computers 1940s onward- Played a pivotal role in the development of digital multimedia, providing the foundation for integrating and manipulating various media types.
• Apple II 1977 -Introduces color graphics to personal computers, paving the way for a more visually engaging user experience.
• Commodore Amiga 1985 - Often considered the first multimedia due to its advanced graphics, sound, and video capabilities
• World Wide Web 1989 - Revolutionized information access and sharing, enabling the creation and distribution of multimedia content through websites. The inventor of the World Wide Web is Tim Berners Lee.
• Streaming Media - Technologies like streaming audio and video allowed for the delivery of multimedia content over the internet in real-time, fostering new forms of communication and entertainment.
• Smartphones 2000s onwards - Became powerful multimedia devices, providing users with constant access to information, entertainment, and communication tools in a portable format.
• Hypermedia - is like a supercharged version of multimedia. Imagine the richness and variety of multimedia, with the added power of nonlinear exploration and interactivity. That's the essence of hypermedia.
• elements of multimedia - text, audio, images, animations, and video.
• hypermedia allows for - nonlinear navigation.
• The key ingredient in hypermedia is hyperlinks.
• GIVE 7 EXAMPLES OF characteristics of multimedia -

  1. Integration
  2. Interactivity
  3. Digital Representation
  4. Computer Control
  5. High Capacity Storage
  6. Network Support
  7. User Interface