Victorian scraps as collectibles - small scale art collecting
limited edition but only due to labour involved
magazine cutouts and posters etc as mass-produced scraps
allowing new forms of collaging arts
modern scrapbooking as personal collections, memory stores
immortalising ephemera
screenshots as digital scraps
digital collage widely reproduced but never as primary method of storing scraps - never a scrapbook application that takes advantage of the [use different metaphors](living documents|living nature]] of digital documents - retaining both originals and arrangement as both easily accessible - there gave been attempts but they tend to [[start with the right metaphor) and deprioritise expressibility or storage or privacy
clip art and early-digital design and graphics as digital scraps
quick access clip art shifting to stock photo
the software not ready for expressivity at that time
digital art packs for designers, vectors for sale, eg Creative Market, digitised version of bits packs for physical card making
stickers as a later evolution, maybe also held back by the wrong metaphor, attempting to hang somewhere between emoji (and other keyboard accessible evolutions such as AI created image ) and image - sent in larger scale or by MMS, not in eg unicode
reaction images and gifs in eg forums, Tumblr, 2010s Twitter
image signatures, comment signatures, html signatures, from forums to emails
introducing small everyday creativity with card making from digital scraps eg inbuilt in Gubbins game
NFTs as artificially scarce digital scraps - removing the benefits of digitising by returning to victorian era of scrap scarcity