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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It’s the same way you can type a few words and everyone who speaks English knows what you meant.

English is a language with rules and the words have definitions. So anyone who reads English can understand you.

The link is from a language called “HTML” and it has rules and definitions too. Every browser understands HTML, and while they do disagree on some of the fancier definitions of features for core things like links they’ve all agreed for a long time.

That’s sort of like how people from different generations interpret the word “based” differently, but we’re all pretty clear on what “toast” means.

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