The first was WAP, which opened up the mobile Internet for users. It was replaced by GPRS, which made it possible to view the web in full volume with minimal financial costs. This is how the internet developed.
It all started with WAP, which made it possible to process primitive web pages and optimize them for mobile phones. The active spread of WAP falls on the early 2000s. Then the mobile Internet turned out to be a breakthrough in the field of IT technologies.
It should be said that WAP is a wireless data transfer protocol over a network. For the first time this method of data transmission appeared in 1997 and has gained a certain popularity in several years.
Of course, by today's standards, WAP provides extremely slow loading of web pages, and the traffic consumption is considerable. However, at the end of the last century, its entry into the life of Russian society was stormy and impetuous. Currently, the use of mobile Internet via WAP is impractical, since all mobile devices support the newer GPRS.
Using WAP technology, data is transmitted in a continuous stream without segmentation. This explains the cost of this technology. That is why WAP pages do not have graphics and consist mainly of text and links. Despite their declining popularity, they can still be found online.
GPRS replaced WAP. It is a packetized transmission of data, divided into segments. This is the main difference between GPRS and its predecessor. At the user's request, multiple packages are flocked to one mobile device, and the user sees the finished web page as a whole.
Thus, GPRS has become a more profitable and faster connection. It allowed loading "heavy" web pages, which were accordingly more informative. By this GPRS attracted Internet users.
The Internet is a worldwide computer network. And GPRS and WAP are ways of connecting to the mobile Internet, data transfer protocols, an add-on over the Internet. While WAP can only work on mobile phones, GPRS works on mobile devices, including wireless modems.
