1966
The term multimedia was coined by singer and artist Bob Goldstein to promote the opening of his "LightWorks at L'Oursin" show at Southampton, Long Island.
1968
The term "multimedia" was re-appropriated to describe the work of a political consultant, David Sawyer, the husband of Iris Sawyer—one of Goldstein’s producers at L’Oursin.
Late 1970s
The term referred to presentations consisting of multi-projector slide shows timed to an audio track.
1993
In the first edition of McGraw-Hill’s Multimedia: Making It Work, Tay Vaughan declared “Multimedia is any combination of text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video that is delivered by computer. When you allow the user – the viewer of the project – to control what and when these elements are delivered, it is interactive multimedia. When you provide a structure of linked elements through which the user can navigate, interactive multimedia becomes hypermedia.”
1995
The German language society, Gesellschaft fur Sprache, decided to recognize the word's significance and ubiquitousness in the 1990s by awarding it the title of 'Word of the Year.' The institute summed up its rationale by stating "Multimedia has become a central word in the wonderful new media world"
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