ocr: A4 - Multimedia Technology Multimedia means mixed-media. Ito combines information in a variety of forms, including text, graphics, animation, audio, and video. Elec- tronic multimedia products have only been available since the early 1990s. But the technologies that make it possible to use this ency- clopedia, for example, go back at least 500 years, to the first printed books. Multimedia is only the latest chapter in the long history of communication. Background