1. HISTORY OF MULTIMEDIA By Suchi Verma

2. DEFINITION OF MULTIMEDIA mul·ti·me·di·a [muhl-tee-mee-dee-uh, muhl-tahy-] Show IPA noun ( used with a singular verb ) 1. the combined use of several media, as sound and full-motion video in computer applications. adjective 2. of, pertaining to, or involving the use of multimedia. 3. having or offering the use of various communications or promotional media: a multimedia corporation that owns TV stations and newspapers.

3. THE START  "The historian, with a vast chronological account of a people, parallels it with a skip trail which stops only at the salient items, and can follow at any time contemporary trails which lead him all over civilization at a particular epoch. There is a new profession of trailblazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected." Vannevar Bush (1945).  Multimedia starts in 1455, when printing started.,

4. THE MIDDLE  In 1953, the typewriter is invented.  1970, computer chips are made.  In 1975, Bill Gates makes Microsoft.  In 1983, the first PC clone is made.  In 1993, the internet is discovered.

5. THE PRESENT The present includes all the definitions of multimedia and there are many things added. Everyone uses the internet and multimedia will advance in the future as a bigger part of everyone’s success.