WG Fantasy

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.