Why do file URLs start with 3 slashes?

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Track title: CC G Dvoks String Quartet No 12 Ame 2

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00:00 Question
00:48 Accepted answer (Score 24)
02:13 Answer 2 (Score 281)
03:01 Answer 3 (Score 32)
05:25 Thank you

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/352133/w...

Accepted answer links:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/dr...

Answer 2 links:
[RFC 1738 – Uniform Resource Locators (URL)]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

Answer 3 links:
[the RFC]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12.../
[RFC 8089]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8089#a...

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