COMPUTER SCIENCE 1033 – FINAL REVIEW + LAB TUTORIALS
Lecture 2 – Fonts
What is multimedia? 1962
Wikipedia à “Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different
content forms.”
Merriam Webster
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COMPUTER SCIENCE 1033 – FINAL REVIEW + LAB TUTORIALS
Lecture 2 – Fonts
What is multimedia? 1962
Wikipedia à “Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different
content forms.”
Merriam Webster à Their definition is actually a multimedia definition, “using,
involving, or encompassing several media”
Cambridge Dictionary à “using a combination of moving and still pictures, sound,
music and words, especially in computers or entertainment”
How can we communicate?
Multimedia application à an application that can be used to present text, sound, video,
images and animation (technical definition)...
Multimedia Uses
To inform, educate, sell and run businesses, and entertain
What are some of the benefits of the World Wide Web?
The World Wide Web is: fast, cheap, usually current, and accessible by millions game
changer for how people would send their messages
What is the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet?
Internet is the hardware and making things connect
On top of the internet, there is software where you can run things such as the World
Wide Web
Great Moments in Multimedia History between 1900 and 1940
1914 animation created by tracing live action films (ROTOSCOPING)
Great Moments in Multimedia History between 1940 and 1993
• 1969 à ARPANET (eventually the Internet) is established by the U.S. Department of
Defence (more on this later)
***When the internet is established
MUST KNOW DATE
• 1991 à Tim Berners Lee has finished developing the World Wide Web(http) and html
and URL. World Wide Web makes its debut
He created the World Wide Web and set the specks for html and URL
MUST KNOW HIS NAME AND DATES
When designing a webpage think about CRAP
Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity
More on monitors (and printers)
A pixel is displayed using light on a monitor to create images or text
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