Web Browsers on PDAS
This article explores the history of web browsers on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) during the 1990s and early 2000s. It details the evolution from limited WAP-based browsing to full HTML support before the eventual dominance of smartphones.
Why it matters
It provides historical context for the development of mobile computing and the technological precursors to the modern mobile web.
From the moment the technology arrived to allow personal digital assistants ( PDA s) 1 a connection to the internet, people started connecting them to the internet, as is the natural order of things. Initially their connections were just for the most fledgeling of information fetching, but as the 90s progressed and the World Wide Web became a feature of the digital landscape, PDA s received browsers.
The content is a technical historical retrospective with no political or social bias.
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