History of Multimedia

History of Multimedia

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1455

The Printing Press

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1780

Benjamin Franklin

Discovered electricity.

1822

Difference Engine, also known as an automatic mechanical calculator, was designed and created by Charles Babbage.

1837

Electric Telegraph

Invented by Samuel Morse, a telegraph transmitter that sends out a signal in a series of dots and dashes, also known as the Morse code.

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1867

Manual Typewriter

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1876

Telephone

Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

1928

Disney

Disney was founded by Walt and Roy Disney and has made a significant impact on the entertainment industry.

1939

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first automated digital computer

The first automated digital computer prototype was created by John Vincent Atanasoff and his student, Clifford E. Berry

1940

First Coloured T.V Broadcast

John Logie Baird pioneered the first colored t.v by using a black and white display and a rotating colored disk.

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1963

Computer Aided Design

Sketchpad was created by Ivan Sutherland where you can interact using a light pen to draw on the monitor.

1975

Microsoft

Develop software for the first microcomputers.

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Apple

1976

Apple computer was released in 1976 and was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

1978

Cellphone

The Brand called Motorola released its first handheld cellphone which weighted “two pounds, offered just half an hour of talk time for every charging, and sold for $3995.”

1978

World Wide Web

The first image that was uploaded in the world wide web was a photo of a parody band made by CERN employees “Les Horribles Cernettes”

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1978

Internet

The internet was released and made available to the public by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

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Present

Reference:

THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIMEDIA: A STORY OF INVENTION, INGENUITY AND VISION. History of multimedia. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 2023, from https://people.ucalgary.ca/~edtech/688/hist.htm