• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m 28 and have no idea what a slide deck is. Is that somehow the new term for a PowerPoint presentation?

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      8 months ago

      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.

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      8 months ago

      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

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      8 months ago

      A lot of presentations are made today with Keynote, Google Slides or LibreOffice Impress.

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        8 months ago

        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.

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          8 months ago

          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.

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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

        PowerPoint literally was a slide show. It even uses the noun “slide” to describe one page of your information.

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      8 months ago

      Perhaps it’s geography which is missing from this conversation.

      SF Bay Area techies will say slide deck all the time.