slide deck
… a what?
I’m 34 and I’ve never even heard the term “slide deck”. Is that some apple shit?
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.
Yup:
Same
I’m 28 and have no idea what a slide deck is. Is that somehow the new term for a PowerPoint presentation?
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.
Chu Chu Chunk.
It’s a carousel of slides, you heathen.
Carousels came later :P
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Overhead projectors don’t exist anymore, they’ve been replaced by video projectors mounted overhead.
Or smart whiteboard things or actual TVs
Or the fancier “elmos”
What the helll is a slide deck
This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.
Was I supposed to read that in Rod Sterling’s voice?
Madmen. John Hamm. Great actor. Also dragged a fraternity pledge by his scrotum with a claw hammer, set him on fire, fled the state to escape charges, and to this day never apologized.
Love is never having to apologise.
