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This chronology explores the origins and evolution of the components that comprise modern-day
multimedia. Seemingly disparate breakthroughs often occurred within a period of months; as you'll
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Franklin discovers electricity.
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Charles Babbage designs the Difference Engine.
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Babbage designs Analytical Machine, often considered to be the first general-purpose computer.
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Telegraph receiver and transmitter .
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Invention of the telephone.
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Granted a phonograph patent.
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Film: Sequential photographs with sprockets manually pulled through a projector.
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Tabulating Machine for the U.S. Gov.Census using punch cards. The tabulating machine later became IBM.
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"Talkies": The first commercial talkie film using optical sound recording.
Juke Box: Automatic Music Instrument Company –coin operated phonograph
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Name of the cartoon: "Steamboat Willie"
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Konrad Zuse
First calculator. First computer -
"Turing’s Machine" defined as capable of computing any calculable function.
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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry design a prototype of the ABC computer .
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ENIAC designer of the Electronic Numerator Integrator and Calculator the first successful high speed digital computer. However, it used the same concepts that Atanasoff and Berry used to build the ABC computer.
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UNIVAC Computer used magnetic tape for buffer memory. UNIVERSAL AUTOMATIC COMP.
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IBM 701: First electronic stored computer that used vacuum tubes, RAM, punch cards and was the size of a piano.
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Third generation of computers included the photo printing of conductive circuit boards to eliminate wiring.
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TED NELSON HE inventend the Xanadu hypertext project.
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4th Generation computer by IBM uses chips to reduce size and cost.
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Intel 4004 chip developed by Hoff.
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Broderbund releases Myst, the first successful interactive 3-D computer game. To date, it has sold more than seven million copies.
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DVD video is introduced; full-length movies are now distributed on a single CD. The DVD format also promises to transform the music, gaming and computer industries.
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Saehan-Eiger Labs releases the MPMan F10/F20, the first portable MP3 player.
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The revolution will be downloaded: Apple introduces iTunes (January) and the iPod
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Recent Trends in the History of Multimedia:
With the advent of the Internet and its growing prominence as a news,entertainment, and shopping destination, people skilled in computer multimedia are in great demand. Multimedia is also used in education. Multimedia
designers create interactive computer software that adapts itself to students' needs.