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.
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.
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.
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 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’?
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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.
I’m 50 and grew up with slide presentations and I’ve never used the term slide deck. Maybe I’ve heard it? but it doesn’t really hit home at all.
I’m a little younger, and still remember slides and transparencies and all that, and I’ve heard “slide deck” a bunch in recent years, AND it still sounds so alien and wrong to me!
I think calling each page a “slide” sounds better somehow, like “hey Bob can you send me that powerpoint slide with the pie chart?”
The deck is the rotating ring that you drop your slides into,
It’s always been called a carousel. A deck is the deck of slides like a deck of cards.
Thank you! As I was typing it I knew I didn’t have the right term for the ring bit.
I’m going to ignore the fact I could have easily looked it up to fact check myself before posting, and instead use my age as an excuse.
I was just old enough to remember my teachers using them, but the tech was already outdated so it’s not like anyone ever taught me about that type of projector, I only ever observed it.
Certain slight projectors used straight slide holders, not circular ones. That’s probably where the term originated.
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Agreed, that’s why I want an overhead projector in my class. In the limited experience I’ve has, It’s much more versatile.
Me too. That is interesting that other people don’t? Slide deck… hear it all the time in IT.
Of course also being in IT I wonder why the fuck they are not html presentations stored in git using some kind of simple markdown instead of powerpoint, but i digress.
Maybe they’ll release the app “Slide Deck” for the Vision in a weird renneissance of skeumorphism?
It’ll be great, only you will be able to see the presentation, how very useful.
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.
common term in corpo speak. Because people use GSlides much more often down.
Also Apple. Keynote (Mac’s version of PowerPoint/GSlides) has an entire section of templates dedicated to the “Pitch Deck” category. For when you’re trying to pitch an idea to management.
For when you’re trying to pitch an idea to management.
Or get VC funding.
Or sell something.
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
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.
I only know anything about this thanks to Veggietales.
