HISTORY OF MULTIMEDIA

By Suchi Verma

DEFINITION OF MULTIMEDIA

mul·ti·me·di·a

[muhl-tee-mee-dee-uh, muhl-tahy-] Show IPA

noun ( used with a singular verb )

1.

the combined use of several media, as sound and full-motion video in computer applications.

adjective

2.

of, pertaining to, or involving the use of multimedia.

3.

having or offering the use of various communications or promotional media: a multimedia corporation that owns

TV stations and newspapers.

THE START

"The historian, with a vast chronological account of a people, parallels it with a skip trail which

stops only at the salient items, and can follow at any time contemporary trails which lead him all over

civilization at a particular epoch. There is a new profession of trailblazers, those who find delight in

the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The

inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples

the entire scaffolding by which they were erected." Vannevar Bush (1945).

Multimedia starts in 1455, when printing started.,

THE MIDDLE

In 1953, the typewriter is invented.

1970, computer chips are made.

In 1975, Bill Gates makes Microsoft.

In 1983, the first PC clone is made.

In 1993, the internet is discovered.

THE PRESENT

The present includes all the definitions of multimedia

and there are many things added. Everyone uses the

internet and multimedia will advance in the future as

a bigger part of everyone’s success.