Multimedia On the Internet

We have 24 hours a day. On average, 8 hours is spent on sleeping, and the rest of 16 hours awake. During the hours that we are awake, how do we spend it?

On the move, we have the mobile phone data plan which allows us to surf the net while on the move. One can read news, watch videos or even chat to each other via messenger or skype. At workplace/school, internet is used everyday. Emails are used to transmit information between departments, search engines are used for research and development, the world wide web is used as an education platform for students. Now, so much of the internet is being used, how do we use them?

In 2.0 -> 3.0 Internet, the web is no longer about scripts and words, it has music, sounds, even videos. The multimedia can be used for various uses, some commonly used applications are education, entertainment, communications and research. Multimedia education is used in schools to spur students' interest in their subjects. Multimedia communication is used everyday when we chat to each other via Messenger, Skpye each other and even social networking such as facebook.

This is an example of multimedia. 



Today, other than the time we use for work and play on the internet, most users gain entertainment from the Internet too. Usually reading off a story from the internet would be boring, watching a movie would be interesting. Movie is a form of multimedia. Multimedia is defined as a computer-based interactive communications process that incorporates text, graphics, sound, animation, and video.

The forerunner for multimedia entertainment is Games. Games of today incorporate texts, graphics, animations, music and videos. Different genres of games such as Role-Playing Games have a story-line and dramatic music. Check out this game trailer:



As mentioned, education in schools have become more advanced in technology and learning is becoming easier. Take a look at this:



These two commonly used multimedia on the web have displayed enormous improvement from one decade ago when pixel games such as Super Mario and yellow textbooks were used. With multimedia so advanced, one wonders if anyone can live without the internet today.