Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tim Berners-Lee, Eadweard Muybridge, High-Speed Photography

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

Document Summary

Multimedia: using several different forms of communication and expression. Multimedia application : an application that can be used to present text, sound, video, images and animation. How people communicated before the internet: posters, newspapers, the radio, and tv. Internet: the wires, satellite, the connection, the stuff you can touch: can do email, file transfer over the internet. Www: the piece of software that runs on the internet. 1450: john gutenberg invents movable type, allowing mass production of books. 1814: joseph nicephore niepice achieves first photographic image. 1837: louis daguerre invents first practical form of photographic reproduction. 1858: europe and na linked by transatlantic cable. 1866: news that takes months to travel takes seconds. 1877: eadweard muybridge invents high speed photography creating first pictures that capture motion. 1927 the jazz singer is the first film to feature spoken dialogue in sync with. Tim berners lee invented www (decided syntax for webpages, url, http in.