The term Multimedia is used in contrast to media which only utilize traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms. (wiki)

so that the definitions i have gotten off wiki, and when i was still a poly student, i fondly remembered one such earlier creation.

xiao xiao, im sure some of us would remember this.


i was learning streaming media in 2001 and part of the course required me to make simple videos that would stream on a website, such as the one we did for our previous posts. Youtube was not available then, so we had to set up our own server to store the video and other necessary network setting to stream it online. Come to think of it, things are so much easier now for everyone to place their own content online. And much of what we experience online are multimedia content. When i was first beginning to learn HTML, creating simple things like mouseover images and cursor animations was a BIG deal. Then dreamweaver made it easier with a graphical UI and Flash allow more dynamic features that HTML couldnt support. these days, website are so much more dynamic and interactive with some features i did not think was possible or too much of a hassle to try back then.

Here a portable way to view multimedia content anytime, anywhere. Try not to do it while walking tho.