What is a "protocol"?

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What is a "protocol"?

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Protocol is basically a language that allows devices to talk to each other. It's basically a grammar for technologies. Without a protocol, two different computers or two different networks would not know what they're talking about when one requests information from the other. Protocol is basically a language or grammar.

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