A Brief History of Online Multimedia: From ARPANET to the World Wide Web

The story of online multimedia begins not with entertainment or education, but with military necessity. In 1969, the United States Department of Defense funded the creation of ARPANET, a network designed to maintain communication even if parts of the infrastructure were destroyed. ARPANET connected just four universities—UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah—but it established the foundational protocols for packet-switched networking that would underpin the modern Internet.

Welcome to the Sersea Media Podcast

Maestro Sersea — educator, musician, author, and lifelong learner — created this podcast dedicated to the power of multimedia as a vehicle for knowledge, creativity, and human connection.]