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I'm 28 and have no idea what a slide deck is. Is that somehow the new term for a PowerPoint presentation?
Ironically, it's a very old term for a powerpoint presentation. Presentations used to be done with actual photographic slides in a projector. They were stored in a deck of slides.
I only know this from Mad Men.
It's a carousel of slides, you heathen.
Carousels came later :P
It looks like you're right. Apparently, some dude on Madison Avenue cooked up that name to help them sell.
Carousels are only the round ones.
Chu Chu Chunk.
So what he’s saying is everyone in his company is 90 and he was fooling them into thinking he’s 90 too
The implication of the OP is that using "PowerPoint Presentation" makes the guy sound old, but "slide deck" is an older term, so is OP saying that he's younger than everyone else in the meeting? But then why would he complain about that?
It's a really confusing post.
Well, he didn’t say “old.” He said “now everyone knows I’m 40.” Maybe 40 is young by comparison.
But you’re definitely right, it’s confusing framing
Wait until they hear about film strips.
This is a great little fact, thanks.
Hijacking this because you're top comment and everyone is talking about the origin of the term (the thing you load into a projector back in the days of physical slides), but no one's answering the actual question as intended:
"Slide Deck" is the term used for the series of slides shown during a presentation, but "Presentation" refers to the whole performance, including non-slide elements like speeches and demos
A lot of presentations are made today with Keynote, Google Slides or LibreOffice Impress.
And most adhesive bandages aren't part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.
MFW Americans call sterile stretchy scab stickers "Bandaids"
But seriously why do British people come up with such… whimsical words for everything?
And now I need to design a keyboard and name it the hoighty toighty tippy typer.
I just call them bandages.
Then stop, you weirdo.
Someday, my friends, presentations made and saved in Markdown will be king, and we can forget about opening slow programs to edit them.
Yes, somehow the world will be a better place when everything is a plaintext document. At least that's how I imagine it.
Incidentally, there was a cool python program for presenting pdfs I used years ago. I wonder if it or similar are still in vogue somewhere.
I do all my presentations in markdown. Maintain them in git.
Share the web page to share the presentation.
PowerPoint sucks. So slow to make a presentation. So slow to change for a different audience.
I wouldn't say I hear literally 'slide deck' that often, but some variation of 'slides' is very common. Basically no one says PowerPoint. Especially relevant as use of Microsoft products is not a given in work anymore, and people are aware of alternatives that require a general term. Ever heard someone say that they saw something 'on social'?
PowerPoint literally was a slide show. It even uses the noun "slide" to describe one page of your information.
Perhaps it’s geography which is missing from this conversation.
SF Bay Area techies will say slide deck all the time.
What's a "web search"? Is that somehow the new term for googling?
AOL Keyword: http://www.google.com
shh, don't let em hear you use that word round these parts