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The analog PowerPoint that never crashes, buffers, or asks you to update your drivers.
means A large pad of paper mounted on an easel, whose sheets you flip over the top as you fill them, used for presentations and brainstorming.
from A transparent twentieth-century compound of plain English parts: 'flip,' the act of turning the sheets up and over the back of the stand, plus 'chart,' a sheet bearing information. 'Chart' itself sailed in through French 'charte' from Latin 'charta,' a leaf of papyrus — so the word's deepest root is, fittingly, paper itself.
- invented
- Credited to engineer John Henry Patterson in 1906
- sales weapon
- Patterson used it to drill cash-register salesmen
- no power
- Survives blackouts, weak Wi-Fi, and dead batteries
- paper size
- Standard pad runs about 27 by 34 inches
- squeak factor
- Marker squeal is its signature soundtrack