Lecture 2 - Multimedia Flashcards
What is multimedia?
What are the five components?
Multimedia is everything you can hear or see.
Describes any application or technology that uses any combination of:
- text
- images
- sounds
- animation
- video
What are multimedia uses?
To inform
To educate
To sell/run businesses
To entertain
What does the World Wide Web offer?
- Accessibility
- Fast
- Directly see people
- Cheap (sometimes free)
Which area of the world has the most internet users?
Asia
What year was network technology introduced?
What was it called?
1969
Arpanet - first packet switching network and the predecessor to the internet
When was the start of the internet?
In 1962
Build network technology to allow researchers at various locations across the country to share information
When was the first email sent?
1971
What was the first graphical browser called?
In what year?
Mosiac
1993
What year did the World Wide Web debut?
1991 - by Tim Burners-Lee
When was the search engine implemented?
In 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
What two purposes does text serve?
- Convey information
2. Visual impact
Font Types
Arial
Times New Roman
Comic Sans
Style
Bold
Regular
Italics
Kerning
Space between pairs of characters
Tracking
Adjusting the distance between all the letters
Leading
The vertical space between lines of text
Serif
Tails
Script
Body paragraphs
- Times New Roman
Sans Serif
No tails
Block oriented
Headings, Titles
- Arial or Verdana
Monospaced Fonts
Each character takes up the same amount of space on a line - Courier
Proportional Fonts
Each character takes up only as much width it needs - Times New Roman
Pixels
The “dots” the take on a particular colour on a screen
How is a pixel displayed?
A pixel is displayed using light on a monitor to create images or text
Point (pt)
A linear unit measuring size of text in a word processing document
72 pt =
1 pt =
1 inch
1/72 inch
