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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
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.
The wheel can both be rotated and clicked, thus most mice today effectively have three buttons. In web browsers, clicking on a hyperlink opens it in a new tab, and clicking on a tab itself usually closes it. Some mice have scroll wheels that can be tilted sideways for sideways scrolling; others may contain a second scroll wheel for this purpose.
Scrolling can be controlled in other software-dependent ways by a PC mouse. 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.
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Mouse wheel may refer to: Hamster wheel; Treadmill; Treadwheel; The scroll wheel of a computer mouse This page was last edited on 5 ...
OK, I'm an idiot. A co-worker pointed out to me that I could re-set how my browser displayed the site by holding down the the CTRL key and using the scroll wheel on my mouse. A bit of testing shows that such changes are retained by the browser for that site. Clearly at some point I must have CTRL-scrolled the font size up for WP.