# Gopherbridge
# A bridge between worlds

> Version: 1.0.19171.1 \
> Created By: jali \<jali@orcapcentral.de> \
> Created On: Sat 22 Jun 2019 08:17:31 pm CEST \
> Last Modified On: Sat 22 Jun 2019 08:17:31 pm CEST 


# What is gopherbridge?

Gopherbridge is a [gopher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_\(protocol\)) 
server.

Gopher is an old protocol. that provides documents and files to users. It allows
downloading data and linking to other documents. Gopher was published around the 
same time as the [World Wide Web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web). 

It works somewhat similar, but is a lot simpler. It has none of the feats of the modern
web, like playing videos or using JavaScript. It's generally text based. 

It's shortcomings are also the biggest feature: Since gopher doesn't transfer much data, it
is fast. Even on small bandwidth dial-up lines, it operates at sufficient speed.

Gopherbridge allows the user to brigde a website into a gopher document, thus making use of
the fast download-speeds it allows, and allow formatting documents as text.

This does for your website, what [gopherpedia](gopher://gopherpedia.com) is for the 
Wikipedia.