[jdm2212]

the software that generated the slides is called Beamer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)

[madcaptenor]

I believe the software was written by a German.

[jdm2212]

sure, but the prior poster's "joke" was that Germans are bad at English and refer to overhead projectors as "beamers" when in reality the entire English-speaking academic world refers to slide decks as Beamers because they all use the Beamer software to generate their slide decks

[pyentropy]

Vedran Miletić doesn't sound German to me! :-)

[madcaptenor]

You're right, but:

- he works in Germany (https://vedran.miletic.net/files/cv-vedran-miletic.pdf)

- the original author is Till Tantau (https://www.beamer.plus/Introduction.html) who is German (https://www.tcs.uni-luebeck.de/en/mitarbeiter/tantau/cv/)

[Ar-Curunir]

And people all over the world use it, not just Germans