History of Multimedia

Visionaries: From the ingenious idea of the programmable computer, trace the innovations of the outstanding thinkers that had a direct impact on the explosion of the technological age. 
Text, Processing and Software: Inventions and innovations that spawned the development of software enabling computers to move from mathematical processing to technology that creates and delivers multi media.
Computers: From the printing press through the exclusive military and academic and corporate worlds trace computer development into the ubiquitous role of the desktop personal computer of today.
Audio & Communication: From the telegraph signal to cellular telephones, follow the development from signal transmission to digital transmission of voice.
Video &Animation: From manually manipulated negative film and hand drawn sketches, video and animation develops to sophisticate digital creation and rendering of motion. 
In more depth: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~edtech/688/hist.htm#Beginning

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~ by wes11 on October 29, 2008.