"Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms.(www.vergoadesh.hpage.com) The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple 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. Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia (as an adjective) also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art; by including audio, for example, it has a broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia can be considered one particular multimedia application."for more information related to multimedia please log on to
The term "multimedia" was coined[citation needed] by Bob Goldstein (later Bobb Goldsteinn) to promote the July 1966 opening of his "LightWorks at LOursin" show at Southampton, Long Island. On August 10, 1966, Richard Albarino of Variety borrowed the terminology, reporting: "Brainchild of songscribe-comic Bob (Washington Square') Goldstein, the Lightworks' is the latest multi-media music-cum-visuals to debut as discothque fare." [1]. Two years later, in 1968, the term "multimedia" was re-appropriated to describe the work of a political consultant, David Sawyer, the husband of Iris Sawyerone of Goldstein's producers at L'Oursin.In the intervening forty years, the word has taken on different meanings. In the late 1970s the term was used to describe presentations consisting of multi-projector slide shows timed to an audio track [2] [3]. However, by the 1990s multimedia took on its current meaning. In the 1993 first edition of McGraw-Hill's Multimedia: Making It Work, Tay Vaughan declared "Multimedia is any combination of text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video that is delivered by computer. When you allow the user the viewer of the project to control what and when these elements are delivered, it is interactive multimedia. When you provide a structure of linked elements through which the user can navigate, interactive multimedia becomes hypermedia." [4] The German language society, Gesellschaft fr deutsche Sprache, decided to recognize the words significance and ubiquitousness in the 1990s by awarding it the title of Word of the Year in 1995. The institute summed up its rationale by stating "[Multimedia] has become a central word in the wonderful new media world"[5] In common usage, the term multimedia refers to an electronically delivered combination of media including video, still images, audio, text in such a way that can be accessed interactively. Much of the content on the web today falls within this definition as understood by millions. Some computers which were marketed in the 1990s were called "multimedia" computers because they incorporated a CD-ROM drive, which allowed for the delivery of several hundred megabytes of video, picture, and audio data. .
