Evolution of Multimedia

By Ba9

  • Bush wrote about Memex

  • Negroponte formed the Architecture Machine Group at MIT

  • Nelson & Van Dam hypertext editor at Brown

  • Email

  • Architecture Machine Group proposal to DARPA: Multiple Media

  • Lippman & Mohl: Aspen Movie Map

  • Backer: Electronic Book

  • Negroponte, Wiesner: opened MIT Media Lab

  • Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web to CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research)

  • K. Hooper Woolsey, Apple Multimedia Lab, 100 people, educ.

  • Apple Multimedia Lab: Visual Almanac, Classroom MM Kiosk

  • the first M-bone audio multicast on the Net

  • U. Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications: NCSA Mosaic

  • Jim Clark and Marc Andreesen: Netscape

  • JAVA for platform-independent application development. Duke is the first applet.

  • Microsoft, Internet Explorer.