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The Web Goes Mobile

In 2007 the iPhone was released which revolutionized the mobile web as we know it today.
One of the most recent milestones in the history of the World Wide Web is accessibility
via mobile devices. Until this point accessing the web had fundamentally been from
computers or laptops. Now the number of users accessing the web from mobile devices is
growing rapidly and is set to overtake desktop access by 2015. Of course, people have been
connecting to the web from mobile devices since the mid 90's but this was in no way
similar to the access that we are used to now.

It was in 2007 that the iPhone first became available, revolutionizing the way that we
access the web from our phones and introducing the concept of mobile apps. The World
Wide Web was now able to understand where about on the planet we were, it allowed us to
upload a photo that we have just taken straight onto our social networking profile. The

mobile web has added another layer to the already useful web.

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