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  2. Multimedia - Wikipedia

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    Multimedia. Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users.

  3. History of television - Wikipedia

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    History of television. Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a ...

  4. History of animation - Wikipedia

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    Main article: Early history of animation. Animated movies are part of ancient traditions in storytelling, visual arts and theatre. Popular techniques with moving images before film include shadow play, mechanical slides, and mobile projectors in magic lantern shows (especially phantasmagoria ). Techniques with fanciful three-dimensional moving ...

  5. Timeline of media in English - Wikipedia

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    19th century. 1821 The Manchester Guardian. 1827 In New York the first 'black' newspaper in the United States, Freedom's Journal, is founded. 1831 William Lloyd Garrison founds The Liberator, which opposed uncompromisingly Slavery - appeared until 1865. 1838 The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, since 1861 The Times of India, today the ...

  6. DVD - Wikipedia

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    The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) [9] [10] is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind of digital data and has been widely used to store video programs (watched using DVD players ...

  7. Media art history - Wikipedia

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    Media art history is an interdisciplinary field of research that explores the current developments as well as the history and genealogy of new media art, digital art, and electronic art. [1] [2] [3] On the one hand, media art histories addresses the contemporary interplay of art, technology, and science. [4] [5] [6] On the other, it aims to ...

  8. Information Age - Wikipedia

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    The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution [1]) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century to the early 21st century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the ...

  9. Digital camera - Wikipedia

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    History Further information: History of the camera ยง Digital cameras , Digital imaging , Digital single-lens reflex camera , and Camera phone The first semiconductor image sensor was the charge-coupled device (CCD), invented by Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith at Bell Labs in 1969, [8] based on MOS capacitor technology. [9]