Betsy LangowskiI’m looking through my Macintosh user guide (the booklet that accompanied my 1984 Macintosh) for the first time in a while, and I’m a little obsessed with this graphic explaining scrolling.
Chris Espinosa@superbetsy /me waves
kira for scale@Cdespinosa @superbetsy was that one of your contributions?
@kirakira @superbetsy Carol Kaehler wrote the copy, Ellen Romano drew the art, Pam Stanton-Wyman was the print production lead, and of course everybody contributed… but that started from a sketch of mine in the User Interface Guidelines.
It wasn’t an original idea. “Scroll” was a metaphor, just like “window” and “desktop.” While metaphors are supposed to map known experiences onto new ones, most people had no physical experience with an actual scroll, so we had to illustrate it.
@Cdespinosa @superbetsy you know, I don't think I'd ever associated the term with a physical scroll before now 
Juan C Nuno
Zimmie@juancnuno @kirakira @Cdespinosa @superbetsy Physical scrolls today are mostly religious items for uncommon religions (e.g, a Written Torah) or antiquities. Very few people have actually seen one being used, so it makes sense people don’t make the association immediately.
Elvith Ma'for@kirakira @Cdespinosa @superbetsy Fun fact: Scroll translates to "(Schrift)Rolle" in German. And on a German keyboard, "scroll (lock)" is labeled as "Rollen" (the verb form of Rolle). But since everyone still uses "scrollen" as a borrowed verb for "to scroll", I also never made that connection and rather assumed some strange historical naming convention for keyboards that no one questioned...