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Ancillary Tasks Research
Digipak and Website Ancillary Tasks
A2 Media

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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.

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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.

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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 Boy
Musicology
Prince

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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.

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Example
Under the CD
Front Cover
Inside the
Digipak

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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.

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Webpage and the history of
the Internet.

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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.

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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

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Domain Name
 The development of the domain name occurred in 1984.
 It was so people could easily identify computers on the internet.

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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.

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Mosaic
 Mosaic as the first internet browser. It was released in 1993.
 Mosaic was very slow and didn’t load pictures well.

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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

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1996
 Hotmail is introduced.
 The first webmail service

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1998
 Google and Napster are launched
 Google revolutionised access to websites
 Napster opened up mainstream file-sharing of audio files over
the internet.

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2001
 Wikipedia is launched. It paved the way for collectable data
content.

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2003
 Skype and Myspace are launched.
 Skype introducing voice over IP calling
 MySpace becoming the most popular social site

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2004
 Facebook is launched by Mark Zuckerberg

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2005
 Youtube is launch bringing free online video hosting and
sharing

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2006
 Twitter is launched.

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2007
 Tumblr is lunched

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2010
 Both Instagram and Pinintrest are launched