History of Multi-Media

By Evo2d345

  • First Newspaper Published

    First Newspaper Published
    Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien was the first newspaper and was published by a German publisher named Johann Carolus. If you asked me how to say the name of the paper to save my life I wouldn't be able to, so don't.

  • First camera invented

    First camera invented
    This is the date the first camera was invented by Johann Zahn.

  • First picture taken

    First picture taken
    This was the official date of the very first photograph taken, and it took a very long time time worth of exposure to develop.

  • Steam Boat Willie

    Steam Boat Willie
    Steam Boat Willie was the first Disney film to be made! You can still see it today in the opening of some Disney movies, with the mouse at a boat's steering wheel.

  • Pong released!

    Pong released!
    Pong was the first video game to ever be made, all though many think it to be Pac-man or Galaga. Pong revolutionized the way we use technology.

  • First mobile phone

    First mobile phone
    The first mobile phone which sprouted the revolution of cell phones. This phone was very big and bulky, and looked hard to carry around.

  • First apple computer

    First apple computer
    The Macintosh 1 was just a big chunk of old machinery. I mean look at this thing, im surprised it wasn't too heavy for a desk. It was the first device with a floppy drive so it could hold much more information.

  • Atari released

    Atari released
    The atari was the first home console. Similarly to the X-box or Ps4. Its just a machine you can play at home. This meant you didn't have to go to the arcade to play a video game.

  • First interactive lazerdisc

    First interactive lazerdisc

  • Macromedia

    Macromedia
    This was the very first video editing software and was later adopted by adobe to become the famous adobe software line we know and use today.

  • Intel 386 processor

    Intel 386 processor
    This was the first computer processor openly sold to the public that was also strong enough to easily run a multimedia application. Because of this they were used in places like schools, homes, work, anywhere you could think of.

  • Adobe Photoshop Released

    Adobe Photoshop Released
    Adobe photoshop was revolutionary and helped many people to make projects. It makes it easy and smooth to make good looking posters and flyers etc.

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    The world wide web is just the internet, and is obviously still used today. If you look at web links, sometimes they will say "www.---". This is the World Wide Web.

  • First Social Media

    First Social Media
    The first social media to be recognized as an actual website, was Six Degrees, and for what I can tell, it was late older MySpace. You could make friends and have a little page and that's about it. This sprouted the infection that is social media today.
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    2000's recap

    You already know al of what happened in the 2000's most likely, but recap anyway. Windows computers got a lot better, as did Macs. I-phones and other cellular phones got hugely popular, and game consoles both as home consoles and on the go got wildly popular as well. Basically, all technology got better and we are gradually stopping using things like newspapers.