You are probably thinking of WML - wireless markup language. A stripped-down version of HTML that let you do webbish things on devices that could never run a "r

You are probably thinking of WML - wireless markup language. A stripped-down version of HTML that let you do webbish things on devices that could never run a "real" web browser. Sites had to write their own WML pages for mobile users to be able at access the site. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/wml/wml_quick_guide.htm https://www.tutorialspoint.com/wml/wml_quick_guide.htm When the iPhone came out with a desktop-class browser it changed the game. Steve Jobs called it out in the iPhone keynote: > We wanted the best web browser in the world on our phone, not a baby web browser or a WAP browser, a real Web browser, and we picked the best one in the world, Safari, and we have Safari running on iPhone. It is the first fully usable html browser on a phone.