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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You don’t single-click _everything_ on the web anymore. Now we have much more interactive websites, where you can single click to select something, and then do other things with that selection.
On the desktop, single-click is “select”, and double-click is “activate” – open a file, run a program, whatever. On the web, with hyperlinks specifically, there’s no utility to being able to select a link – there’s nothing else to do with it! You can click it, and follow where it goes, or you can ignore it and stay where you are.
I don’t know if it’s still possible, but older editions of Windows had settings to let you treat your desktop like a web browser, and single-click to start programs. Always drove me crazy, because then you can’t click to select and use keyboard shortcuts.
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