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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 con... tent 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 [Show More]

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