In the process of researching an article for the upcoming issue of Disc Golf World, Rick has manged to cover every available flat surface in the shop with stuff he dragged up from the basement documents from the archives.
I am not a big fan of clutter, but looking over 20+ years of club newsletters, tourney flyers, and other assorted DG publications has been a real treat. It has also got me thinking about the nature of communication in our online world.
Since it exists in a physical form, printed matter has a residual quality that lends itself to accidental archiving. Who doesn’t have a few of “those boxes” in the basement/attic/closet full of magazines, books, or photographs.
In the process of putting out a magazine for the past twenty years Rick has managed to accumulate quite a few boxes which, when taken as a whole, document the birth and growth of disc golf. I wonder how much of the online communication we rely on so heavily now will be around in a decade or two? Hopefully someone is printing out all those PDF files.
In case you lost your copies, I thought I would share some images of the stuff I have been walking around this week. I like the flyer from the 1st PDGA worlds with a copy of the original score sheet attached (right). I have more pics that I will put up on Flickr when I get a chance.
To navigate through the images click on the left or right side of the large image to move through the gallery.
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1 Dave Michaels // May 20, 2007 at 10:25 am
Being a child of the computer generation, I believe that not only is electronic easier to archive, but provides better long-term quality. The problem is that so many people don’t archive (or even worse, are unaware of a need to).
It’s so incredibly easy to keep information for 15-20 years with a negligible effect on your surroundings. Keeping 10 years of Disc Golf World is going to require some space in a room - boxes, etc. Ten years in pdf files is less than 100 meg in disc space and hard drives are just hitting 1 terrabyte (100 million megabytes).
I imagine that DGW is on a computer somewhere, and backed up, so although it’s not the origin of the sport, it should keep the copies that exist very fresh for future generations
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