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.
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
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:
I'm 34 and I've never even heard the term "slide deck". Is that some apple shit?
A slide deck is the analogue version of a PowerPoint.
The deck is the rotating ring that you drop your slides into, then project them on the wall with what is essentially just an overhead projector designed to take small vertical slides of film loaded into the deck, instead of just using transparent sheets.
You'd design all your little film slides, arrange them in order in the deck (think, deck of cards). The deck is what let you automatically swap between slides by pressing the remote to rotate the deck and reveal the next slide to the projector lens.
I'm 32 but my school was broke as fuck so we were still using overheads and slide decks in 2005.
Yup:
It's some business consulting shit.
I'm in IT, I hear this term every week.
Nah nah, HyperCard was the Apple shit.
27, never heard slide deck
slide deck
... a what?
Often shortened to deck. Sounds similar enough to dick that you can just say dick and no one notices. You get to go around taking about showing people your dick all the time then giggle about it.
As opposed to being like, 60 instead? Cuz that's the demographic I'd think of as using the term "slide deck".
What the helll is a slide deck
I can hear this image.
This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.
Should have called them "overhead projector sheets" and pushed them all into utter confusion.
I'm a 32 year old teacher and I want an overhead projector.
A dry erase transparency is much easier to write on than the white board. My macro handwriting is awful, students can barely read what I write on the board. So I always end up writing on a peice of paper on my desk, and I have my phone on a tripod so I can get a "top down shot" of me writing on the paper, then I screen cast that to the smart board.
It works, I can write legibly by writing in a normal size, and then enlarge it for the class to read fairly quickly.... Once all the cameras and casting is set up.
But it would be so much easier to just have an overhead projector, a few transparencies and a dry erase marker. Roll it out, plug it in, aim and focus the lens, then I'm done. Plus then if the internet goes out I could still use the board!
I bet it would be every bit as good as you think. I had a math teacher back in middle school ~30 years ago who taught EVERY lesson by talking as he wrote things on a transparency on the overhead projector.
We have great tech for that stuff now, but the projector and markers feels very human-compatible in an analog way. Kind of like reading a book I guess.
“Slide deck” is an old person term, not a young person term.
If anything calling it a slide deck makes you sound old.
Not quite...the term has actually come back around again.
My experience the last few years is that being old makes everything you say sound old.
Accidentally called it a power point and not an open document presentation (the n00bs in my class don't know the difference between Keynote, PowerPoint and Impress)
Now everyone know you use proprietary software.
Can everyone see my screen? Okay good. I put literal paragraphs of stuff into my presentation, and I'm going to read it all to you verbatim. This is much better than email.
Now I can put presentation skills on my resume.
Okay, so are we among 80 year olds who still can't computer, or are we among 20 year olds who either don't use Microsoft Office or are trying to stop using Microsoft branding for the concept of presentations?
For some reason I am now wondering if overhead projectors are still called overhead projectors...
Overhead projectors don't exist anymore, they've been replaced by video projectors mounted overhead.
Someone tell the german schools
So... They still have overhead projectors they just aren't overhead projectors?
Or smart whiteboard things or actual TVs
The new SMART boards (which is a brand like Kleenex) is actually IFP (Interactive Flat Panel). I work on the sales side of the industry now, but I grew up with, and worked on those SMART boards as my district had them, but they’re technically an interactive board and projector.
Also, if you didn’t know (and mannnnyyyy people in IT/Facilities don’t realize this for some unknown reason) there is major differences between TVs. Specifically consumer and enterprise/commercial grade TVs. Especially around LED/Backlight tested lifetime. Tons of education institutions have IT departments just buying off the shelf TVs. Which is horrifying for the network/unmanaged aspect alone…
Slide deck sounds like something related to yu gi oh or mtg
Huh. I guess I think of a "slide deck" as the (usually PDF) version that is sent to everyone in the meeting so they can refer to the slides before/after the presentation, and a "PowerPoint presentation" as the live presentation of those slides.
I am 27 and never hear slide deck before it is indeed a power point presentation.
But does anyone younger than 40 even know what a slide is?
34 and we had over head projectors and slide projectors as well in elementary.
I'm barely in my 20s and I don't even know what a slide deck is lol.
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