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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)

“Slide deck” is an old person term, not a young person term.

If anything calling it a slide deck makes you sound old.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not quite...the term has actually come back around again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It’s like calling your remote a “clicker”. A term that is still used but only by the old crowd.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Both "clicker" and "slide deck" made a resurgence, these are definitely not exclusively old terms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Everything is cyclical. My mum took the piss out of my baggy jeans in the early 00s cos they looked like 70s bell bottoms.

Skinny jeans replaced them but hey ho - baggy jeans are coming back again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Their origin is old is the point. They refer back to an old technology and no longer applies since todays remotes don’t click. I think a “resurgence” is going a bit far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Or the even crazier regional usage of "button box".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I call the game controllers "remotes". I don't think my kids like me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My experience the last few years is that being old makes everything you say sound old.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

For sure especially anything related to technological advancements.

Slide deck refers to the old film projectors, which no one uses anymore except old people. So of course youngsters will have zero clue what a slide deck is. There is no use for this term anymore and it’s dying along with its technology.