On December 30, 1997, I started this page to help developers manage the — then new — mouse wheel. My goal was to encourage a standard scrolling direction for the X Window System on Unix and Linux.

It quickly became the most-viewed page on my personal site, and even across all INRIA-hosted websites at the time. However, as mouse wheels became mainstream, the page lost its relevance. I let it quietly disappear in 2018 when I upgraded my site.

Seeing that this remains one of my most accessed URLs even in 2026, I decided to create this legacy page. It allows people to easily find the historical version on the Web Archive, specifically the latest version of 2015-09-06, from which is the screenshot:

Enjoy!