eli5: How does every browser understand the same link?

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How can I open a link in chrome and take the same link and it works with safari or opera or any other browser?

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Attempting to ELI5 more than the other good answers so far.

A link is like an address on the internet. It’s specifying a location to go to. So going to the same link in different browsers is like putting an address into the GPS on a truck, a car and a motorcycle. Yes the vehicles are very different. But we give GPS coordinates in a standardized way so that when you punch them in to any vehicle’s GPS system, you still get taken to the same place.

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