• DillyDaily@lemmy.world
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      9 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.

        • Swarfega@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

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

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        9 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.

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          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?”

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            9 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.