Scrapbooking Digital

Cave Walls verses Monitor Screen

The world of scrapbooking or (history keeping) has certainly come a long way. Some would argue that drawings on a cave wall are not true scrapbooks. After all, granite and sandstone are undoubtedly not paper. Another thing, you couldn't very well carry them to your neighbors cave to share your daily entrees. To this I say "well neither is a monitor screen a piece of paper (although if you have a laptop you can feasibly carry it to your neighbors). Even though a computer monitor is not paper, we call a collection of digital scrapbooking paper, photos, stories, journal entrees, and fonts for scrapbooking digital.

Many folks point out that "real" scrapbooks didn't come into existence until people started pasting newspaper clippings, movie tickets and photos onto colored pages. Now honestly, how can we expect our cave dwelling brothers and sisters to have pasted movie tickets and such things into a book when none of the above-mentioned items had even been invented yet? I have to admit, "seeing" the caveman in front of scrapbooking programs or a bunch of downloadable digital scrapbook pages and stuffing photos of the last hunt into photo corners is quite a visual.

You know, to be perfectly honest you could take the ancient form and blend it with the newest technology. Just take paper, do a rubbing of all those beasts and spears and stick figures, and then scan them onto your hard drive. Hey! That's a great idea for a new scrapbook. I will upload it when I am finished.

I am sure if we were to warp back to the time of the "writing on the walls" Mr and Mrs Cavemann would argue for their simple scrapping method as a "real scrapbook". And even if I silently disagree I wouldn't want to get into an argument over it because I have been to museums and have seen the size of those clubs they carried around.