> 20 years ago an accordion was a design pattern that made a bit of sense - scrolling meant moving the mouse to the scrollbar or pressing Page Down which took y

> 20 years ago an accordion was a design pattern that made a bit of sense - scrolling meant moving the mouse to the scrollbar or pressing Page Down which took you out of the reading flow on the page Scroll wheels were a thing 20 years ago too :) I've been building websites as well as surfing the web for nearly 30 years now and I can honestly say I've never once found the scrollbar or using the arrow keys (which I favored over the Page Down) as jarring to the reading experience like you said it is. Generally you'd just keep one hand hovered over the keyboard button or the mouse cursor on the scrollbar, much like you might keep your finger on the scroll wheel now. If anything, I find swiping on a mobile screen more jarring since it means I have to use both hands (since I'd be holding the phone with one hand), or do some "phone gymnastics" where I try to shift the phone position in my hand enough to slide the screen with my thumb while still holding the phone, and do so without dropping the phone. Which often results in scrolling either too far or not far enough. > Not to mention screens were tiny so a long page didn't work very well. Mobile screens display a lot less text than a webpage did on a 90's 800x600 PC screen. Remember that modern screens will have a higher DPI to make things look smoother. On older screens we just accepted that stuff would look pixelated because that was the state of the art.