WAP Links: Mobile Web History
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WAP is gone. In 1999 the WAP Forum (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Phone.com) gave phones a tiny web written in WML, and NTT DOCOMO launched i-mode in Japan using compact HTML. WAP 2.0 moved to XHTML Mobile Profile. After the iPhone (2007), phones got full browsers, and today one responsive HTML page with a viewport tag and CSS media queries serves every screen. The old WAP portals on this page are offline; the history and today's standards are below.
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Links last checked Oct 19, 2026.
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| A short history of the mobile web | ||||||||
 alistapart.com - Ethan Marcotte, "Responsive Web Design" (2010) |
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 wikipedia.org - WAP (1999): the first phone web, pages written in WML |
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| wikipedia.org (i-mode) - i-mode (1999, Japan): NTT DOCOMO's cHTML phone web |
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| wikipedia.org (mobile web) - Mobile web: from WAP to smartphones |
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| wikipedia.org (responsive) - Responsive web design: one HTML page for every screen |
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| wikipedia.org (WML) - WML: the "deck of cards" markup WAP phones read |
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| wikipedia.org (XHTML MP) - XHTML Mobile Profile: WAP 2.0 moved to web markup |
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| Standards today: responsive HTML | ||||||||
 caniuse.com - Can I use: browser support tables |
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 google.com - Google: mobile-first indexing |
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 mozilla.org - MDN: responsive design |
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| mozilla.org (viewport) - MDN: the viewport meta tag |
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 pagespeed.web.dev - PageSpeed Insights: test a page on mobile |
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 w3.org - W3C CSS Media Queries (may block automated checks) |
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| w3.org (best practices) - W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (2008, historical; may block checks) (on the old page) |
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| w3.org (mobile a11y) - W3C WAI: mobile accessibility (may block automated checks) |
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 web.dev - web.dev: Learn Responsive Design |
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 whatwg.org - WHATWG HTML Living Standard |
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| Archives and references | ||||||||
 archive.org - Wayback Machine: the WAP Forum site in 2000 |
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 computerhistory.org - Computer History Museum |
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 openmobilealliance.org - OMA specifications: the old WAP specs live here |
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 wapforum.org - WAP Forum (now part of OMA) (on the old page) |
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| Mobile industry groups | ||||||||
 3gpp.org - 3GPP: mobile network standards |
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 docomo.ne.jp - NTT DOCOMO (i-mode) |
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 ericsson.com - Ericsson (WAP Forum founder; may block automated checks) (on the old page) |
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 gsma.com - GSMA: mobile operators |
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 nokia.com - Nokia (WAP pioneer) |
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