User:Colm/RW&RS-scrolling-essay

This started as a prototype, and an excuse to learn Javascript, but is turning out to be much more revealing that I first thought. Scrolling on screens is an action that can be directly matched up to progress points in computer and network history. It is an illusion that I want to unpack, and have the essay live beside the more demonstrative prototype.

• Etymology
• The illusion
• Scrolling wasn't always as easy as it is now
• Timelines
• The responsibility of touch screens:
  • their portrait orientation
  • their limited interactions
• speed readings
• changing history: remembering context over content
• fax paper metaphor
• binge scrolling & distances covered