# WAP Links: Mobile Web History - webcentive

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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.  

- **A short history of the mobile web**
- [alistapart.com](https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/) - Ethan Marcotte, "Responsive Web Design" (2010)
- [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol) - WAP (1999): the first phone web, pages written in WML
- [wikipedia.org (i-mode)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode) - i-mode (1999, Japan): NTT DOCOMO's cHTML phone web
- [wikipedia.org (mobile web)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_web) - Mobile web: from WAP to smartphones
- [wikipedia.org (responsive)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design) - Responsive web design: one HTML page for every screen
- [wikipedia.org (WML)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language) - WML: the "deck of cards" markup WAP phones read
- [wikipedia.org (XHTML MP)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Mobile_Profile) - XHTML Mobile Profile: WAP 2.0 moved to web markup
- **Standards today: responsive HTML**
- [caniuse.com](https://caniuse.com/) - Can I use: browser support tables
- [google.com](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/mobile/mobile-sites-mobile-first-indexing) - Google: mobile-first indexing
- [mozilla.org](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Core/CSS_layout/Responsive_Design) - MDN: responsive design
- [mozilla.org (viewport)](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/name/viewport) - MDN: the viewport meta tag
- [pagespeed.web.dev](https://pagespeed.web.dev/) - PageSpeed Insights: test a page on mobile
- [w3.org](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-mediaqueries-3/) - W3C CSS Media Queries (may block automated checks)
- [w3.org (best practices)](https://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/) - W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (2008, historical; may block checks) (on the old page)
- [w3.org (mobile a11y)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/mobile/) - W3C WAI: mobile accessibility (may block automated checks)
- [web.dev](https://web.dev/learn/design) - web.dev: Learn Responsive Design
- [whatwg.org](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/) - WHATWG HTML Living Standard
- **Archives and references**
- [archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/2000*/wapforum.org) - Wayback Machine: the WAP Forum site in 2000
- [computerhistory.org](https://computerhistory.org/) - Computer History Museum
- [openmobilealliance.org](https://www.openmobilealliance.org/specifications/) - OMA specifications: the old WAP specs live here
- [wapforum.org](https://www.wapforum.org/) - WAP Forum (now part of OMA) (on the old page)
- **Mobile industry groups**
- [3gpp.org](https://www.3gpp.org/) - 3GPP: mobile network standards
- [docomo.ne.jp](https://www.docomo.ne.jp/english/) - NTT DOCOMO (i-mode)
- [ericsson.com](https://www.ericsson.com/en) - Ericsson (WAP Forum founder; may block automated checks) (on the old page)
- [gsma.com](https://www.gsma.com/) - GSMA: mobile operators
- [nokia.com](https://www.nokia.com/) - Nokia (WAP pioneer)

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