"jack" > wrote
>>> Apparently you have. Once upon a time disks were organized in
>>> directories. That was before M$ decided that 'directory' was too
>>> difficult a concept for their poor users, and changed it into 'folder'.
>>
>> Actually Apple decided that.
>>
> Actually it was Stanford or Xerox, as nb pointed out. But M$ was the one
> that got it accepted as 'common computerese', by their sheer size. When
> Apple called it folders and DOS called it directories, the generic term
> was 'directory'. When windows started calling it 'folders', the generic
> term changed.

Businesses have been storing documents and the like in folders for a couple
of centuries. Long before any computer owners/builders/programmers have
been alive. Why change it now?