Eli5 Why do you have to double click on desktop, but single click on the internet

Question

This is very fitting for this as I was probably about 5 when I first asked but never got a good answer “it’s just how it is” or something similar.
But when your on the desktop of your computer you double click to open a file or a program, but on the internet you single click everything.

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Answer 1

Most of the time links on webpages are more similar to buttons than they are to applications on the desktop. You also single click buttons in desktop applications.

If a webpage uses a control where you can both select and activate an item, it uses the single click – double click pattern most of the time, too.