A little bit of WAP never hurt anyone.

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1: Intro

Hey Kids, have you ever hard of WAP? No, not

Wet-Ass Pussy

, or

Women Against Pornography

. I'm also not talking about

Wale Adenuga Productions

or even

Wireless access points

. I'm talking about the

Wireless Application Protocol

.

WAP was meant for displaying simple websites and online-apps on mobile phones back in the early-mid 2000s. The time where a 21kbit/s mobile connection was considered fast and the screen resolution was measured in double-digit pixels.

Screens on mobile Phones grew bigger and their CPUs more powerful while Mobile internet connections got faster and cheaper. So it's no wonder that WAP started out weak and died rather quickly after.

But regardless of the fact that next to nobody cared about it back then and even less people care about it now I decided to offer my blog as WAP service.

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Before I tell the tale of how I did it, I'd like to thank

Maartje

for running a WAP-Gateway, the WAP-Portal

wap.bevelgacom.be

and for publishing a great

getting started guide

.

There's also

Bevelgacom Blåmba

which you absolutely should check out if you're in the EU and have a Nokia phone from the early 2000s.

Getting started with WAP and WML

by Evans Huw was also pretty helpful.

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