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the original infinite feed, except it knew when to stop.
means To move text or images smoothly across a screen, or the noun for a rolled-up length of paper or parchment bearing writing.
from From Middle English 'scrowle,' an alteration of earlier 'scrow' (a strip of parchment), influenced by 'rolle' (a roll). 'Scrow' traces back through Old French 'escroue' (a scrap or strip of parchment) to a Germanic source. So the word literally describes the thing itself: a strip you unroll to read. The screen sense — the steady upward creep of text — is a 20th-century borrowing, naming the digital motion after the ancient gesture of unwinding a scroll.
- dead sea
- Some scrolls survived 2,000 years in desert caves
- reading direction
- Hebrew scrolls unroll right to left
- comeback kid
- Codex books killed scrolls, then phones revived scrolling
- torah law
- One mistake voids an entire handwritten scroll
- mouse legacy
- Scroll wheels named for what ancients physically unrolled
dead sea scrolls — ancient hebrew manuscripts found in qumran caves, 11 texts from 200 bce to 70 ce
antikythera mechanism — ancient greek analog computer with bronze gears, discovered 1901 in shipwreck, 100 bce
rosetta stone — granite slab with three script versions, discovered 1799 egypt, unlocked hieroglyphics