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by xg15 999 days ago
Hit the paywall, so I couldn't read the article, but here is an article about Chinese handscrolls:

https://www.invaluable.com/blog/chinese-painting-handscroll/

You read them horizontally, in a mode that indeed is quite similar to today's virtual scrolling.

So I guess, the alternative to infinite vertical scrolling is... infinite horizontal scrolling?