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  2. Scroll wheel - Wikipedia

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    The scroll wheel on a mouse has been invented multiple times by different people unaware of the others' work. Other scrolling controls on a mouse, and the use of a wheel for scrolling both precede the combination of wheel and mouse. The earliest known example of the former is the Mighty Mouse prototype developed jointly by NTT, Japan and ETH Zürich, Switzer

  3. Page Up and Page Down keys - Wikipedia

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    The two keys are primarily used to scroll up or down in documents, but the scrolling distance varies between different applications. In word processors, for instance, they may jump by an emulated physical page or by a screen view that may show only part of one page or many pages at once depending on zoom factor.

  4. Eric Michelman - Wikipedia

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    Modern scroll wheel on 5-button mouse. (2008) Eric Michelman, a graduate from MIT, is credited with inventing the now commonplace computer input device known as the scroll wheel. Scroll wheels are most often located between the left and right-click buttons on modern computer mice.

  5. Mac 101: How to scroll quickly through a web page or long ...

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    The space bar will jump you down the page in large increments and is a much faster method of scrolling than the page down arrow, which moves you in smaller increments.

  6. Scrolling - Wikipedia

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    Some scroll wheels can be pressed down, functioning like a button. Depending on the software, this allows both horizontal and vertical scrolling by dragging in the direction desired; when the mouse is moved to the original position, scrolling stops. A few scroll wheels can also be tilted, scrolling horizontally in one direction until released.

  7. Apple Mighty Mouse - Wikipedia

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    If not used with Mac OS X, the mouse behaves as a four "button" mouse with a vertical and horizontal scroll wheel. There are third-party drivers (including XMouse [8]) that provide more functions to users of other platforms such as Windows. The Mighty Mouse does not report whether the right and left sensors are activated simultaneously.

  8. Scrollbar - Wikipedia

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    A scroll wheel on a conventional mouse may also be used. Moving the wheel in a desired direction moves the content in the same direction. [16] Most mice contain scroll wheels that only scroll up and down, but some mice contain scroll wheels that allow the user to scroll in any direction (up, down, left or right), including diagonal directions.

  9. IntelliMouse - Wikipedia

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    IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 Microsoft IntelliMouse with IntelliEye optical sensor mouse. IntelliMouse is a series of computer mice from Microsoft.The IntelliMouse series is credited with a number of innovations; [1] Microsoft was among the first mouse vendors to introduce a scroll wheel, [2] an optical mouse, and dedicated auxiliary buttons on the side of the mouse.