We all know that a scroll is a roll of parchment used in ancient times. A scroll can be rolled up or down, and that must have been the metaphor the creator of the computer-term "scroll" had in mind.
But in English, is it acceptable to say you can scroll (verb) a scroll (noun) up and down? As far as I know it should be "roll up/down" in this context, so how is it that we use "scroll" as a verb in computer terminology?
When was the word "scroll" first used as a verb, and how is it that we don't rather use the appropriate scroll-metaphor (the object), which would be to roll the page up and down?