Definition - What does 

Multimedia mean?

Multimedia refers to content that uses more than one medium. The categories of media are
slippery, but they generally include:

 Text
 Sound

 Graphics/images

 Animation/video (live footage as opposed to animation)

Multimedia became an important concept as the Web moved away from a largely textual layout
to a graphical one. Many sites were competing to become true multimedia sites with a mixture of
text, sound, images and videos.