History of Multimedia By Cassandra McCoy

History of Multimedia : 

History of Multimedia

What is Multimedia? : 

What is Multimedia? Multimedia is the integration and presentation of images, text, and/or sound by mean as of computer technology.

Cave Paintings : 

Cave Paintings 15,000 B.C . Cave paintings was the first form of multimedia founded in Europe, Africa, and Australia.

Chinese Moveable Type : 

Chinese Moveable Type A.D 1041 The Chinese were using block printing around A.D. 500, and printing whole books by 868. In 1041 Pi Sheng created the first moveable type made from based clay glued to an iron plate.

Comment: Impact of printing : 

Comment: Impact of printing 1460 The invention of movable type printing is generally consider a historical turning point because it quickly made printing much cheaper. The process of block printing and hand transcribing of texts and illustrations were very time consuming and therefore expensive.

Cheap Books and pamphlets : 

Cheap Books and pamphlets 1500 Economics of books production became more profitable and pamphlets and posters.

Early British Newspaper : 

Early British Newspaper 1645 The Intelligencer was on of the many newspaper published during the 17th century.

Electricity : 

Electricity 1780 Frankin discovers electricity Among his many creations were the lightning rod, glass armonica, bifocal glasses and the flexible urinary catheter.

Novels Readily Available and Popular : 

Novels Readily Available and Popular 1790 Cheap book production made novels economic for middle classes. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice published 1813. Often books were published in serial form in magazines.

Newspaper Widespread : 

Newspaper Widespread 1800 Advances in industry made high speed printing economic and newspapers cheap.

Chemical Photography : 

Chemical Photography 1826 Frenchmen Joseph Niepce and Louis Jacques-MadeDaguerre took the worlds first Photographer, using huge box cameras with chemical coated metal plates.

Daguerrotype : 

Daguerrotype 1839 Photographs produced using a paper negative.

Rotary printing press : 

Rotary printing press 1840 The machines began to do most of all the work, 24,000 copies and hour.

Color Photography : 

Color Photography 1860 Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell created the first color photographs by combining separate images taken using red, blue, and green filters.

Phonography : 

Phonography 1877 Thomas Edison originally created the phonogrpahy to store telegraph messages.

Photography : 

Photography 1880 Photography a widespread Art Form, with professional photographers employed for wedding, important occasions and for formal family portraits.

First Sample Consumer Camera: Kodak : 

First Sample Consumer Camera: Kodak 1888 Based on a roll of film

Typewriter : 

Typewriter 1890 Began radical change in capacity to produce text.

Motion Pictures: Silent Movies : 

Motion Pictures: Silent Movies 1895 Thomas Edison’s projector design to create the first moving images projected onto a screen for public viewing.

Box Brownie Kodak Camera : 

Box Brownie Kodak Camera 1990 At $1 the box brownie put photography in the hands of everyone.

Dictaphones : 

Dictaphones Feb 5, 1907 Dictation machines- sound recording devices most commonly used record speech for later playback or to be typed into print.

Phonography- Disc Dominates Cylinder : 

Phonography- Disc Dominates Cylinder 1908 While the phonography had been around for decades by around 1908 the record disk began to dominate sales over the cylinder. Sales rose rapidly during the 20s, but were set back by radio broadcasting. Sales feel steeply during the 1930 Depression

BBC Began Radio Broadcasts In Britain : 

BBC Began Radio Broadcasts In Britain 1922 While radio has been in use for decades to communicate point, broadcast radio took off in the 20’s

Cinema Major Entertainment Medium : 

Cinema Major Entertainment Medium 1925 Cinema dominating entertainment

Disney : 

Disney 1928 “Steam boat Wille” first cartoon with a fully synchronized soundtrack

Radio : 

Radio 1935 Radio standard household item wireless

Video Animation : 

Video Animation 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The first full length animation was released.

Type : 

Type 1953 Electric Typewriter

Stereo Player : 

Stereo Player 1965 Stereo Player Standard Household Item

Tape Recorders In Homes : 

Tape Recorders In Homes 1966 Large to reel then cassette tape players become standard home appliances

Office Laser Printer : 

Office Laser Printer 1969 First produced by the Xerox company in 1969 laser printers use electrostatic charges to direct ink into rollers and from these to paper.

Domestic Video Recorders and Cameras : 

Domestic Video Recorders and Cameras 1970 U-matic then VHS and Beta Max video systems available at relatively cheap prices.

E-mail : 

E-mail 1971 Programmer Ray Tomlinson created computer codes that assigned addresses to different users and machines. He sent the first email between two computers using the Arpanet 30 years later over a billion email a month were being exchanged over the internet.

Microsoft : 

Microsoft 1975 Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates.

Walkman : 

Walkman 1979 Although magnetic recording tape was invented in 1928 this remained less popular then records until 1985. The walkman stereo helped change this by making recorded music personal and mobile.

Compact Disc Player : 

Compact Disc Player 1982 The Compact Disc (CD) was developed by engineers at the Philips and Sony companies. With no wear during playback and high quality digital sound. CD were outselling records by 1988 cassettes by 1991.

Digital Camera : 

Digital Camera 1988 The first true digital camera, the Fuji DS-1P was for space probes and satellites.

Pixars “Tin Toy” : 

Pixars “Tin Toy” 1988 The first computer animated film to win an Academy Award.

World Wide Web (WWW) Launched : 

World Wide Web (WWW) Launched 1991 Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web, which used the “Internet” to network HTLM and HTTP code to easily circulate “page” of information and hyper links to connect them internet had been in existence in various forms for several decades to readily connect computers.

Mosaic: First Web Browsers : 

Mosaic: First Web Browsers Mosaic became the killer application of the World Wide Web and led to it widespread use within a little over a year. Mosaic provided a multimedia (images, sound, text) simple editor for creating pages fir the WWW. Mosaic became Netscape Navigator which was the dominant browser until Internet Explorer took over.

Internet takes off : 

Internet takes off 1995 Explosive growth of the internet.

Mobile Phones take-off : 

Mobile Phones take-off 2000

IPod : 

IPod October 23, 2001 First portable MP3 Player Jon Rubinstein, Jonathan Ive, Tony Fadell, Micheal Huey, & Steven Jobs created the Ipod.

Internet: Social Networking take- off Myspace : 

Internet: Social Networking take- off Myspace Myspace explosive growth as millions of predominantly young people join, creating a major phenomenon, such that News Limited purchases Myspace for approximately $400 million which initially seemed a remarkably high price, but soon was recognized to be bargain.

Video Sharing - Youtube : 

Video Sharing - Youtube 2006 Video by: Cassandra McCoy

Research : 

Research http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/A-history-of-multimedia http://people.ucalgary.ca/~edtech/688/hist.htm Book Invention

Created By: Cassandra McCoy : 

Created By: Cassandra McCoy