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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 136 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm 34 and I've never even heard the term "slide deck". Is that some apple shit?

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago
[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Oh man I've not seen one of these since I was a kid. I can literally hear this photo.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

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?”

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah I use the word slide that way. I'm rejecting slide deck as a term. We have to remember veto power when it comes to language.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Certain slight projectors used straight slide holders, not circular ones. That's probably where the term originated.

https://c7.alamy.com/comp/C3R700/slide-magazine-isolated-over-white-C3R700.jpg

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry but this will never dethrone the overhead projector.

[-] DillyDaily@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Agreed, that's why I want an overhead projector in my class. In the limited experience I've has, It's much more versatile.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Overhead projectors are cool, but most people only know the kind designed to work with transparent sheets.

Much cooler are the ones designed to project opaque things like books. For some reason they're built like tanks:

https://www.donsrental.com/itemimages/3149.jpg

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, my exposure to slide projectors is exclusively from movies. Never learned the terminology.

[-] runeko@programming.dev 20 points 8 months ago

It's some business consulting shit.

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

I'm in IT, I hear this term every week.

[-] westyvw@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

The key is to use some apple exclusive product. Oh and then stickers on your laptop when you go to conferences.

[-] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago

Nah nah, HyperCard was the Apple shit.

[-] LeafOnTheWind@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago
[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

do you regularly present a series of text and images in sequential segments to meetings for the purpose of conducting business processes, though? If so what do you call the series of text and images you're presenting?

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

Maybe they'll release the app "Slide Deck" for the Vision in a weird renneissance of skeumorphism?

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

It'll be great, only you will be able to see the presentation, how very useful.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

They want to create a "metaverse" where everybody in the virtual office is wearing one.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You mean a slide show?

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