It’s a Word document.
It’s an Excel spreadsheet.
It’s an Access database.
It’s a Powerpoint …
… deck. Evidently. Based on the adds for Micro$oft products scattered all over Terminal 7 at LAX.
I always heard presentation as what Powerpoints flock into, but what do I know? At least they didn’t call it a viewgraph.
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Is THAT where that name came from?
Living in the contractor world (which is, is so many ways, a deeply, deeply PowerPoint world), I started encountering “deck” as a substitute for “presentation”… well, a couple years ago, at the First Big Contracting Place.
I figured it was just some kind of new bit of jargon that caught one — didn’t know it was the Microsoft designation.
So…since I spend a fair amount of time dealing with decks (on ships) I had to look that one up. The Free Dictionary lists in its third definiation “A group of data processing cards” although Mirriam Webster online does not.
A Powerpoint presentation does resemble a vitual stack of cards, so maybe that’s the mental connection.
I suspect that’s the idea — descendent of a deck of Hollerith cards or something.
It’s a bit more descriptive/less functional than “presentation,” I suppose.
It just made me blink a few times when I saw it.
Didn’t Hypercard use the term “deck,” way back in the world before HTML? It might have been derived from that usage.
Yes, I think it did.
That said, I really have problems equating the Hypercard model with Powerpoint slides.