The stories of how slide decks looked before PowerPoint – and there wasn’t just one style – and how it influenced communications are blowing my mind.
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(BTW it doesn’t come with a box of PowerPoint, that’s just my copy :·) ) The book spends a lot of time talking about the *context* of all the decisions, which is so informative.
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It looks like it’s available online for free on author’s page, too – but you can also support him by paying for it: https://www.robertgaskins.com/
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Feels like required reading for anyone interested in the history of communications. Thanks to
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There’s an early story of people cobbling together a highly complex system (making slides in Emacs, typesetting them TeX, adding illustrations by *hacking together a TeX font to tile an image*) and I’m like THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I DO TODAY IN HTML.pic.twitter.com/ATKQg8V0NQ
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Now I want to give a presentation talking about the pre-PowerPoint and early-PowerPoint slides described in this book… by recreating other modes of presenting (transparencies, 35mm slides, analog videos) using a modern HTML slide deck. Meta level: Very Meta.
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“At the end of that period, nearly three years of intensive work, we shipped PowerPoint 1.0 for Mac, with the program files on the diskettes dated 20 April 1987.” 4/20: The PowerPoint Day
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Okay, I will shut up now. Last thing: design mock-ups for the first version of PowerPoint (named Presenter).
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The cover design, some may say is bad, but I think its perfect. And its aptness makes its "ugly" parts beautiful
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I spent a lot of time thinking of it, too. I’m not sure. It definitely is authentic, but I think there was a way to do that and be slightly more elegant – I think the book’s cover and typesetting make the book seem worse than it is.
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