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.
| Site | whois | history | safety | sitesearch | Google AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
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| A short history of the mobile web | ||||||||
| alistapart.com - Ethan Marcotte, "Responsive Web Design" (2010) | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| wikipedia.org - WAP (1999): the first phone web, pages written in WML | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| wikipedia.org (i-mode) - i-mode (1999, Japan): NTT DOCOMO's cHTML phone web | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| wikipedia.org (mobile web) - Mobile web: from WAP to smartphones | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| wikipedia.org (responsive) - Responsive web design: one HTML page for every screen | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| wikipedia.org (WML) - WML: the "deck of cards" markup WAP phones read | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| wikipedia.org (XHTML MP) - XHTML Mobile Profile: WAP 2.0 moved to web markup | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| Standards today: responsive HTML | ||||||||
| caniuse.com - Can I use: browser support tables | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| google.com - Google: mobile-first indexing | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| mozilla.org - MDN: responsive design | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| mozilla.org (viewport) - MDN: the viewport meta tag | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| pagespeed.web.dev - PageSpeed Insights: test a page on mobile | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| w3.org - W3C CSS Media Queries (may block automated checks) | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| w3.org (best practices) - W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (2008, historical; may block checks) (on the old page) | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| w3.org (mobile a11y) - W3C WAI: mobile accessibility (may block automated checks) | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| web.dev - web.dev: Learn Responsive Design | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| whatwg.org - WHATWG HTML Living Standard | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| Archives and references | ||||||||
| archive.org - Wayback Machine: the WAP Forum site in 2000 | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| computerhistory.org - Computer History Museum | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| openmobilealliance.org - OMA specifications: the old WAP specs live here | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| wapforum.org - WAP Forum (now part of OMA) (on the old page) | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| Mobile industry groups | ||||||||
| 3gpp.org - 3GPP: mobile network standards | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| docomo.ne.jp - NTT DOCOMO (i-mode) | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| ericsson.com - Ericsson (WAP Forum founder; may block automated checks) (on the old page) | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| gsma.com - GSMA: mobile operators | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
| nokia.com - Nokia (WAP pioneer) | whois | history | safety | search | AI Mode | Grok | Bing AI | |
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