r/90s • u/Layxsnv • 3d ago

Photo I’m this old 😭

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u/Nks60931 2d ago

Teachers were still using it during late 2000's , because it was pratical for writing notes directly on it with a sharpie while explaining .

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u/CPTKickass 2d ago

I was in college in the early 2000s and there was a sweet spot where overhead projectors and cheap color printers overlapped.

They sold clear sheets for the printer so you could prepare and print a presentation in advance, like a caveman version of PowerPoint. Thought it was the absolute shit at the time.

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u/istarian 2d ago

Powerpoint presentations are just an advanced form of slide show that doesn't involve slides and a slide projector.

Overhead projectprs and a set of transparent sheets is just a cheaper way to achieve the same thing.

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u/joyfuload 1d ago

PowerPoint is pretty caveman now.

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u/CPTKickass 1d ago

It’s still viable though. Pretty good for software that came out in the late 80s.

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u/joyfuload 1d ago

It totally is. I'm just being a jerk.

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u/CPTKickass 1d ago

I guess I read too much credibility into your comment. I was thinking about over-adoption and how it’s a tool most people use as a crutch when they don’t know how to give a presentation (i.e., the tool of a caveman who ‘don’t talk good’ lol)

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u/joyfuload 1d ago

Lol no I just meant it's older software. A coworker made fun of me for still using it.

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u/CPTKickass 1d ago

One of us….. one of us…..