18. WAP services
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your area.
WAP (short for Wireless Application Protocol) is to mobile devices what
WWW (world wide web) is to computers. The mobile community began
developing WAP in 1997 to give mobile device users access to the internet.
Today, most WAP sites are made up of text and hyperlinks, with some sites
capable of text input or selection items in a list. Some pages even contain
low-resolution graphics. Because your service provider and others are free
to design WAP sites as they choose, each site can vary almost as much as
a web page on the Internet.