A roll of parchment or paper containing writing, or to move text vertically on a computer screen. As a verb, it means to move through content by rolling or sliding.
From Old French 'escroe,' a variant of 'escroue' meaning 'a roll of parchment,' ultimately from Germanic origins related to 'shred.' The word originally referred to the physical rolled manuscripts before the invention of bound books. The computer sense emerged in the 1960s as a metaphor for the rolling motion.
Scrolling connects our digital age directly to ancient scribes - when you scroll through social media, you're mimicking the same rolling motion monks used to navigate medieval manuscripts. The Dead Sea Scrolls and your smartphone employ the same basic interface concept separated by 2,000 years!
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