When was the word "scroll" first used as a verb?
The OED’s first recorded use of scroll as a verb is in 1606 when it meant ‘to write down in a scroll’. The first use in the sense ‘To roll or curl up’ is in 1868. The first use in a computing context is in 1971. By 1977 it was being used in the sense ‘to move displayed material upwards by scrolling’ and by 1979 ‘to move through text on a screen by scrolling’.