1. DEFINITION
· Multimedia, in personal computing, software and applications that combine text, high-quality sound, two- and three-dimensional graphics, animation, photo images, and full-motion video (Columbia Encyclopedia).
· Multimedia might be defined as the seamless digital integration of text, graphics, animation, audio, still images and motion video in a way that provides individual users with high levels of control and interaction. The evolution of Multimedia is a story of the emergence and convergence of these technologies (University of Calgary)
· Computer-delivered electronic system that allows the user to control, combine, and manipulate different types of media, such as text, sound, video, computer graphics, and animation (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia). The most common multimedia machine consists of :
a) a personal computer with a sound card, modem, digital speaker unit, and CD-ROM.
b) Interactive multimedia systems under commercial development include cable television services with computer interfaces that enable viewers to interact with TV programs;
c) high-speed interactive audiovisual communications systems, including video game consoles, that rely on digital data from fibre-optic lines or digitized wireless transmission and;
d) virtual reality systems that create small-scale artificial sensory environments .
· Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms. (Wikipedia)
· The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks.
· The World Wide Web (WWW) is one of the services that runs on the Internet. It is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and Uniform Resource Locator (URL). In short, the WWW is an application running on the Internet. Viewing a web page on the World Wide Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a web browser, or by following a hyperlink to that page or resource.
