Yes, there was a time that we didn’t have PowerPoint when we presented. We didn’t have computers either. We used a slide projector. The most commonly used slide projector was from Kodak.
In the olden days all we had were pictures. We took them with our 35mm cameras and Kodachrome film, Ektachrome if you had to. We’d pick the best photos and put them into the slide trays and hoped that the projector would work for the entire slide show. Words? Yes, we had words. We spoke them. They didn’t appear on the screen. After a while, folks realized that you could synchronize more than one projector to create effects. Some adventurous people, unfortunately, actually were able to add captions…words. That’s when things went south. Once computers were used Microsoft got the idea to encourage us to use PowerPoint. As more and more features became available the pictures were less important and the words took on a more prominent role. That’s how we got into the mess we’re in now. The more words that they used, the more they thought they needed bullets. As the number of bullets increased, the number of people in the audience who started falling asleep also increased.
Oh…BP: the good old days with slide projectors before PowerPoint.