• RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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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      1 year ago

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

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

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        1 year 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.