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Digipak and Website Ancillary TasksA2 Media

+Digipak

Digipak is a patented style of optical disc packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI-Shorewood, an Atlas Holdings LLC company.

It originates from optical disc packaging which is the packaging that accompanies Cd’s, DVD’s other optical medias.

+Digipak

Digipak is a variation of a Jewel CD Case that has been used since the release of the first CD release in 1982.

A digipak refers to a cd case that is basically a plastic CD tray glued inside a cardboard cover.

The term was patented for a specific packaging however now it is used a general term to describe any cardboard based CD package.

Digipaks are more environmentally friendly than jewel boxes however are less used due to the high manufacturing cost and low resistance to wear.

+Digipak Cd’s

There are lots of artists who have released their songs in digipak form. Some include

Its Time by Michael Bublé

Colour The Small One

Sia

The Fame Monster

Lady Gaga

Infinity On High

Fall Out BoyMusicology

Prince

+Features of a Digipak

A book style either paperback or card stock outer binding with 1 or more tray that are able to hold a CD or DVD.

A digipak traditional contains 1 Cd but can any amount normally up to 4.

+Example

Under the CD

Front Cover

Inside the Digipak

+Common uses for Digipaks

Digipaks are commonly used when artists are releasing a single or a limited edition of the CD.

Olly Murs released a deluxe edition of his album Right Place Right Time as a deluxe edition in a digipak. This Digipak contains 2 cd’s the normal CD and then a CD containing with new music.

+Webpage and the history of the Internet.

+History of the Internet

In 1969 ARPA created a special computer. It was called The Interface Message Processor. It was

activated in early october. The first communications were between a research

centre at the University of California and a centre at the Stanford research institute.

+E-mail

Emails are a programme developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1972

In 1973 75% of internet traffic was E-mail. The @ sign was introduced due to the creation of E-

mail

+Domain Name

The development of the domain name occurred in 1984.

It was so people could easily identify computers on the internet.

+1990

Due to the popularity of the web the internet exploded aftere 1990.

This forced the US government to turn over management of the net to independent organisations at the start of 1995.

This was the creation of the modern day world wide web (www.). A term coined by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 that saved the interent.

+Mosaic

Mosaic as the first internet browser. It was released in 1993.

Mosaic was very slow and didn’t load pictures well.

+1995

The first SSL was developed by Netscape making it safer to pay online using a credit card.

This saw the introduction of Ebay and Amazon Java and JavaScript were introduced to the public in

1995

+1996

Hotmail is introduced. The first webmail service

+1998

Google and Napster are launched Google revolutionised access to websites Napster opened up mainstream file-sharing of audio

files over the internet.

+2001

Wikipedia is launched. It paved the way for collectable data content.

+2003

Skype and Myspace are launched. Skype introducing voice over IP calling MySpace becoming the most popular social site

+2004

Facebook is launched by Mark Zuckerberg

+2005

Youtube is launch bringing free online video hosting and sharing

+2006

Twitter is launched.

+2007

Tumblr is lunched

+2010

Both Instagram and Pinintrest are launched