AFTER COMPLETING THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:
     Define multimedia, describe why it is effective, and explain how it will be important to life in the twenty-first century
  Demonstrate how multimedia is changing the world through telecommuting, home shopping, electronic publishing, and computer-based education
  Show how fast multimedia is growing in business, industry, homes, online services, and education
  Identify and define the components of a Multimedia PC
  Define the Internet and the World Wide Web and understand how they provide access to multimedia resources on a worldwide basis

MULTIMEDIA LITERACY RESOURCES:

How Fast is Multimedia Growing? 
 

EMarketer

AT&T News Release

SIIA

eStats

GartnerGroup Dataquest

The Internet Economy Indicators



Mergers and Alliances
 

BroadView

MSNBC

"AOL and Direct TV" from SV.Com

 

Reuters Special to CNET News.com
Viacom and CBS Merger

WebTV



Telecommuting
 

The Smart Valley Telecommuting Guide

Microsoft Windows NetMeeting



Home Shopping
 

CommerceNet



Business and Advertising
 

NUA Internet Surveys

Infogate (formerly Entrypoint)
The Infogate service has been discontinued as
happens sometimes on the Web, which is a work in progress.



Newspapers on the World Wide Web
 

Chicago Tribune

The New York Times

The Washington Post

USA Today

Pilot Online

The Wall Street Journal

The Mercury News

Los Angeles Times


AJR NewsLink




Teaching and Learning
 

Electronic-school.com



 Mass Media
 




Processor and MHz
 

Intel iCOMP Index



What Is the Internet?
 

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers



 What Is the World Wide Web?
 

Tim Berners-Lee's Web Page

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)



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