“Why did the PowerPoint presentation cross the road?”/“To get to the other slide.”
“Why did the chicken cross the road?”/“To get to the other side” is a classic riddle from the 19th century. A PowerPoint version is:
Q: Why did the PowerPoint presentation cross the road?
A. To get to the other slide.
“Why did the graphic designer cross the road? To get to the other slide. #advertising #powerpoint” was posted on Twitter by Dean Bing on November 24, 2011. “Why did the person who invented Microsoft Powerpoint cross the road? To get to the other slide…” was posted on Twitter by Robert J Stead on January 5, 2012.
Wikipedia: Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint (or simply PowerPoint) is a presentation program, created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin[4] at a software company named Forethought, Inc.[4] It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoint for $14 million three months after it appeared.
Twitter
Dean Bing
@ThBigBingTheory
Why did the graphic designer cross the road? To get to the other slide. #advertising #powerpoint
6:01 AM - 24 Nov 2011
Twitter
Robert J Stead
@Stead
Why did the person who invented Microsoft Powerpoint cross the road? To get to the other slide…
5:10 PM - 5 Jan 2012
Twitter
Nooruddin Hargey
@NooHar
#LameJokeOfTheDay Why did the person who invented Microsoft Powerpoint cross the road? To get to the other slide.
9:17 AM - 6 Jan 2012
Twitter
kade
@kadefoxx
Why did the powerpoint cross the road? To get to the other *slide*! #lolol #badjokesftw
11:36 PM - 31 Jan 2012
Twitter
Colvin
@Covlin
Why did the powerpoint presentation cross the road? To get to the other slide.
1:09 AM - 19 Apr 2013
Twitter
Lauren Lang
@lang_lauren
Why did the PowerPoint cross the road? To get to the other slide
9:17 PM - 13 May 2013
Reddit—Jokes
Why did the PowerPoint cross the road?
submitted January 29, 2017 by SteveHeist
To get to the other slide.
11 April 2018, Fraser Coast Chronicle (Maryborough, Queensland), “Joke of the Day,” pg. 10:
Q: WHY did the PowerPoint presentation cross the road?
A: To get to the other slide.
Reddit—Jokes
Why did the PowerPoint presentation cross the road?
submitted April 21, 2018 by Tazario123
To get to the other slide
Twitter
IT Positive
@IT_Positive
#TellAnOldJokeDay :
Why did the PowerPoint Presentation cross the road?
To get to the other slide.
9:00 AM - 24 Jul 2018