Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tim Berners-Lee, Transatlantic Telegraph Cable, High-Speed Photography

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Laura Reid

Document Summary

Via the five senses: sight, smell, sound, touch, taste. Question: which ones can we utilize for communication on the web: multimedia application an application that can be used to present text, sound, video, images and animation (technical definition) To sell and run businesses: http://www. chapters. ca http://www. monster. ca http://www. eharmony. ca. Great moments in multimedia history before the 1800s. Also : 1450 - johann gutenburg invents movable type, allowing mass production of books, 1702 - e(cid:374)gla(cid:374)d(cid:859)s fi(cid:396)st dail(cid:455) (cid:374)e(cid:449)spape(cid:396) sta(cid:396)ts pu(cid:271)lishi(cid:374)g. By 1866, news that had once taken months to travel, now took seconds: 1877 - thomas edison invents the phonograph, 1877 - eadweard muybridge invents high speed photography - creating first moving pictures that captured motion. Great moments in multimedia history between 1940 and 1993: 1962 -telstar, first communications satellite is launched into orbit, 1969 - arpanet (eventually the internet) is established by the u. s. department of. World wide web makes its debut: 1993 - mosaic, first graphical web browser is released.