Terrible headline. The article provides does nothing of the sort, it's just a meandering, musing on the nature of scrolls. It's filler. Lovely magazine prose.
And they managed to hide it so heavily behind a paywall that I got 1 paragraph that ultimately told me nothing and did nothing to make me want to read more of the article. What crap.
I am totally in agreement with the sentiment that infinite scrolling sucks. I just want pages back.
Early 2000s tech was shared similarly to the handscroll. You physically would gather people to the computer room, because there was a dedicated computer room in houses, or you'd split screen video game.
You couldn't add anything, other than forums, and posting there tended to be a solitary thing like current (anti?)social media, but it was more of a real life experience.
But I still think 99% of the problem with the internet is just that we spend all day on it. There's nobody to create any content about real life if everyone scrolls all day, and if you're too addicted, no content to find that inspires you do do anything in real life(There's amazing DIY videos, you can learn basically anything, but it only works if you actually then put down the screen and do it)
Drag upward to turn page, pull down to turn it back, or left/right pagination.
Or present as an endless scroll, but have visible page break headers, containing sharable links, so it's semantically paged even if the UI has to be dirty icky endless scrolling.
