> You could scroll through a web page smoothly Not really, certainly not at 60fps. Hell, even in the late 2000's, smooth scrolling for web pages specifically w

> You could scroll through a web page smoothly Not really, certainly not at 60fps. Hell, even in the late 2000's, smooth scrolling for web pages specifically was still held back by rendering performance, hence the iPhone having much more aggressive scroll deceleration for web content only. In any case, 90's OSes did all sorts of tricks to try to avoid doing this kind of animation because “2D acceleration” wasn't a guarantee. Recall that scrollbars didn't have instant feedback in the past (they scrolled when you let go of the mouse) and neither did window resizing. These transitions would have been designed to work reliably even on the lowest-spec Windows 95 machine, considering they're part of office software, not games.