List of WAP WML sites (started on 2025-01-11)
COLLECTION OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WAP SITES
compiled by Nino Ivanov, 11th January 2025
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Introduction
WAP as a technology has been, by now, since the 1999 launch of commercial sites, longer dead than alive. Testing such functionality has become harder due to the very absence of any sites to visit. This compilation shall serve the purpose to suggest the traveller remote lands where he can still stear his Nokia and Siemens ships towards. Presented are "better" sites and "worse" sites, according to my own, personal discretion with no claim of objectivity. Automatically generated sites have been ignored. Included sites must be at least partially in English.
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Tools, if you have no phone:
Home of wApua (Linux), available on Ubuntu's repositories, too: https://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/wApua/
Home of WinWap (Windows): https://www.winwap.com/downloads/downloads.php
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THE BETTER SITES
https://www.kannel.org/wap/main.wml
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http://wap.bs0dd.net -- an enthusiast's site, also featuring WAP gateway addresses under (not WAP):
https://nbpfan.bs0dd.net/index.php?lang=eng&page=wap/main
as well as Kannel for Windows under:
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PEAK COOL:
http://wap.localize-friends.de/ -- most strangely, some sort of social media that allows chat creation; absolutely old wild west style, zero security, zero registration
http://wap.localize-friends.de/wap/en/chat/rooms.wml -- chat rooms, use the Search function to find again a chatroom created
http://wap.localize-friends.de/wap/en/chat/midpchat-216091.wml -- just give a "name" and some "text"
Can also be reached from a desktop machine:
http://www.localize-friends.de/www/en/chat/midpchat-216091.html
Normal WWW site:
http://www.localize-friends.de/index.html
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https://cobradile.neocities.org/index.wml#one -- personal website in Scottish dialect, appears written "live while having a stroke"; apparently the newest site on this list, last updated in 2023
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https://www.dvdtalk.com/index.wml#index -- talk about movies, updated in 2022
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https://www.webelements.com/wapelements/index.wml -- wonderful site on chemical elements
https://www.webelements.com/wapelements/Sm.wml
https://www.webelements.com/wapelements/C.wml
https://www.webelements.com/wapelements/Pu.wml
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http://www.slovo.bg/wap/index.wml -- traditional Bulgarian literature, the anthem available in English
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https://www.dan-dare.net/index.wml#Home -- artistic content regarding retrofuturistic spaceships
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http://www.locrianconsulting.com/ -- "professional business", consulting website; mentions under events some conference in Dublin in 2000.
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http://www.wap.siriusgt.com/index_1.wml -- construction accounting software; you need to manually adjust the URL, there are no sublinks!
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http://wap.abinee.org.br/indexi.wml -- Brazilian Electrical and Electronics Industry Association, little content, but formal presence
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http://www.alnpete.co.uk/alnpete.wml#front -- offer of professional WAP sites design - curious!
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https://philjohn.com/main.wml -- poems and other materials by Phil John
https://philjohn.com/wap/poems.wml
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http://nickolay.info/index.wml -- personal website with applets
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http://www.trax.bc.ca/index.wml#MainCard -- properties on some Canadian Pacific island, so you can freeze to death
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http://www.dvdpricesearch.com/index.wml -- DVD price search, including for "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer"
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http://sureshwap.50webs.com/index.wml#card0 -- personal website
http://sureshwap.50webs.com/index_307.wml -- non-functional links
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http://bdmobile.50webs.com/index.wml -- personal site from Bangladesh, some navigation steps may crash the browser
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http://starmen.net/index.wml -- links do not work, music enthusiast's notes
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http://www.cybex.gr/index.wml#cybex.gr -- "business language mumbo-jumbo" that today just sounds funny
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http://mobile.janashakthi.com/lifeunlimited.wml -- life insurance in Sri Lanka
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https://www.jlearnit.com/index.wml -- download site for some dictionary - nice for testing Java app download capabilities
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http://www.onelook.com/index.wml -- test site, but nicely shows how you can enter a password
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http://wapbrowse.com/index.wml -- Your Phone section shows the browser string
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http://www.mt-tremblant.com/mobile/index.wml -- tourist information on some Canadian town
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http://wap.mikekohn.net/java.wml -- Java games, nice for testing JAD-downloads
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http://wap.winwap.com/winwap.wml -- brief information on the WinWap browser, short, nice test page
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http://wap.sima.cat/index.wml -- Catalonian website with mostly local financial information
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http://wap.newsquest.co.uk/mobile/hampshire/sailsolent/HAMPSHIRE_SAILSOLENT_VOLVOOCEANRACE25.wml# -- some sort of test site, no central WML parent, but good content for experiments
http://wap.newsquest.co.uk/mobile/corporate/jobssw/news/NEWS0.wml#
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http://wap.allaboutsymbian.com/index.wml -- unmaintained, Symbian centric, has some ringtones, links broken
http://wap.allaboutsymbian.com/wmlnews.wml
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http://wap.weatherweb.net/index.wml -- British weather website, dead since 2005, but very complete and nice to navigate
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http://www.met.gov.kw/MMS/en.wml -- Kuwaiti weather site, dead since April 2018
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http://wap.simonanderson.com/ -- lovely personal site, nice WML script to add two numbers; not very robust, however: 2 + 5 = 7, but 2 + 0005 = [void, no answer]
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https://wap.hayastan.com/index.wml#index -- ringtones site, appears functional; mostly dead since 2005
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THE WORSE SITES
http://www.dantagg.com/hello.wml -- not a proper website, but does show the useragent string, too
https://www.wap.northwoodcc.co.uk/index.wml -- essentially nothing but a demo of redirection
http://persan.nu/wml/start.wml -- Swedish personal website, little sensible content, most links broken; judging from "birthdate" and "age", the site has been unmaintained since 2016/2017
http://www.brumgoth.org.uk/index.wml#card0 -- site for Goths in Birmingham, nothing works
http://www.njegos.org/wap/ -- Serb nationalist webpage concerning Montenegro, crashes the browser after a while
http://www.html-5.com/index.wml#contents -- HTML5 tutorial, most links are dead
http://www.nostalgianerd.com/wml.wml#card1 -- very small site / stub
http://www.jobohnsack.de/cd.wml#CDs -- very small site / test site, Bootleg Boogie shows at least "something"
http://www.wejuggle2.com/index.wml#hi -- very small site of some sort of entertainers, apparently not updated for 22 years, judging by the "married" difference in the main site
https://m.mu3d.com/index.wml#card1 -- some sort of test site
http://www.degromoboy.com/home.wml -- Some "Aleks" promises good WML sites, delivers none
http://www.muriss.com/wap.wml -- Some "Ian" promises links, delivers none
https://www.dressage-direct.com/index.wml -- some sort of testing website, freezes wApua
http://manule228.lh1.in/tipowap/twap-legacy.wml -- personal website, links not working
http://www.jda1.com/weather/wap/index.wml -- weather in Chicopee in 2017
http://gozo.ws/weather/wap/index.wml -- weather in Malta in 2013
http://wap.euskadi.net/temario_i.wml# -- addresses and phones of Basque offices, including the president; note that funnily only the English version of the page ist still half-operational, as WAP has been desupported
http://9timezones.com/indew.wml -- only "Texting for Godot" works.
https://orienteering.ie/index.wml -- only greeting page
http://oyewap.com/wap/horo.wml#card1 -- horror-scope links are broken
http://static.hitrov.com/#card1 -- test website
http://www.tommyherrmanndesign.com/WAP/Fair.wml#Messen -- just brief notes about fairs in 2011 and 2012
http://www.cutmybills.org/index.wml -- as the name suggests, looks to me mega sketchy
http://www.yeswap.com/GoTo.wml#main -- website transcoder using wap.google.com, no longer operational
https://postneo.com/projects/rss2wml/rss.wml#welcome -- someone's half-baked RSS to WAP experiment
http://mobile.sipnet.ru/index.wml -- some Java VoIP thing, but I have no clue about it; does not load properly
http://arcadetones.emuunlim.com/wap.wml -- list of some .mid-files (likely MIDI?)
http://www.parm.net/index.wml -- another list of .mid-files (likely MIDI?)
https://www.thehorseracingsource.com/home.wml -- a sketchy-looking horse racing website, half-defunct