Only Bri’ish (🤮) say slide deck
No, never heard that term.
Go back.
Mr. PP_BOY_ , my arch nemesis. We meet again.
I don’t even know who you are.
Of course not, for me it was the most traumatic day of my life, but for you, it was but a Tuesday.
I’m a Briton, and this is the first time in my life I’ve seen or heard the term “slide deck”.
We used to say (our still do?) “slide show”, for a presentation.
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 call them pretty computer crayon drawings for management to feel special… absolutely fuck all important is provided in a power point…I mean…“slide deck”
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.
I had a week long training course, I read the slides the night before to make sure I would absorb the material well and have a decent shot at passing the test without much anxiety… MF spent a week reading the slides to me that I read the night before…
I’m the first person to say “this meeting should’ve been an email”, but often it’s because I’m slated as “required” on something I’d otherwise be a Cc on.
The reason for those, though, is because people don’t read their emails. Especially not the long winded verbose ones that actually explain things.
You want to tell people things, put it in an email. If you want them to understand it, call a meeting.
Edward Tufte, of Information is Beautiful fame, generally advises AGAINST using PowerPoint for presentations largely because of the low information density. Powerpoint, generally, forces you to put a LOW amount of information on the screen which can really be a problem in some situations.
His advice: Create a Word doc and give that as a handout.
I’m 28 and have no idea what a slide deck is. Is that somehow the new term for a PowerPoint presentation?
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’?
A lot of presentations are made today with Keynote, Google Slides or LibreOffice Impress.
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.
And most adhesive bandages aren’t part of the Band-Aid brand, but we call them band-aids anyway.
I just call them bandages.
Then stop, you weirdo.
MFW Americans call sterile stretchy scab stickers “Bandaids”
But seriously why do British people come up with such… whimsical words for everything?
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.
Wait until they hear about film strips.
This is a great little fact, thanks.
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
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.
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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
Perhaps it’s geography which is missing from this conversation.
SF Bay Area techies will say slide deck all the time.
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
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 25 and same. In high school (circa 2015-2016). In a developed country. Now that I think about it they probably had trouble sourcing the specialty incandescent lightbulbs to keep the damn things running (those had been banned from sale for years in the EU). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Many teachers just had really old slides they clung onto (or coursework in general… I vividly remember a geography class with grainy photocopies of maps with the Iron Curtain still on it, over 20 years after the fall of the Wall). But even if the teachers did want to show a video or sth, there were like 3 projectors for the whole school at the beginning, then it slowly improved to the point that most (but not all) of the classrooms had a projector. Some got lucky and it was overhead, and some even luckier with an overhead projector and a proper fold-out screen (other times we had to decipher a powerpoint slide against a dark green chalkboard…).
Must have been around 2014 that we last used the bulky CRT-on-wheels.Part of the problem is each of those handful of awful “smart” boards we got that nobody asked for probably cost as much as 10-20 projectors and the school threw all its money into that. I’d be curious to know whether it was due to corruption, or non-relocatable funds, or just really good smartboard salespeople.
Better yet does anyone under 40 remember filmstrips?
Shit, I’m old enough to have done research using actual microfiche.
Do libraries even still have microfiche and/or the machines to look at it? I know a majority of filmstrips are just…gone or only the film was saved but no audio.
Accidentally called it a power point and not an open document presentation
Now everyone know you use proprietary software.
I had to, because the school basically forced us to use iPads and not any other tablets or laptops. And those don’t have OpenOffice, and Apples apps are crap. So M$ Office it was. Now I can use my Laptop, and I felt dirty starting wine on it because it polluted my nice Arch (btw) home and cmd is so much worse than bash.
Do you do crossfit?
It’s only a true power point if it was grown in the Power Point region of North America. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling digital slide show.
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
I had a professor in uni in 2005 that used those. Those were called retroprojectors in Portuguese. We called him the retro professor.
So… They still have overhead projectors they just aren’t overhead projectors?
One is referring to the placement of the projector itself, one is referring to the placement of the mirror that projects the image.
I think it is this:
Wow. This shit is a lot more complicated than I thought.
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…
It’s crazy what happened to them, and the market they could have locked down.
They are headquarted in my city, was still kicking around until late last year iirc.
SMART still has a bit of market control (last I looked they made up like 10% of IFP market), but they basically cost a fortune to buy (beyond competition) and then they still have a subscription on top of that.
I was a SysAdmin for K-12 so I pushed a lot of device agnostic stuff since I didn’t want more to manage. SMART was basically a major pain since users always wanted their old software installed. It was horrible, and it often required more than just app deployment through SCCM.
Remember when the teacher would bring in those fancy transparencies that had sliding handles on part of the page to animate part of the projection?
Those were the days lol
Or the fancier “elmos”
I asked a Zoomer to send me a PPT and he didn’t know what I was talking about.
We often just call them “charts”, too, regardless if it’s just a wall of text.
I’m barely in my 20s and I don’t even know what a slide deck is lol.
Slide deck sounds like something related to yu gi oh or mtg
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My wife is at the stage in her career where this is relevant. When thinking back about the phrasing she uses, when making content for someone else to present she commonly says “I need to finish making these slides”. When she is putting together content for her to present herself, she says “I need to finish making this presentation”.
All that said to say, I feel like the terms are related, not the same.
Just my two cents.
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