Where did internet cookies get their name
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Solved by ALwin,
A cookie seems like a name that came out of the blue for a message sent from a web server to your computer. So how did cookies get their name?
The term "cookie" was coined by web browser programmer Lou Montulli, and it was derived from the term "magic cookie", which is a packet of data a program receives and sends back unchanged, used by Unix programmers. Magic cookies in turn derives from "fortune cookie", a cookie with an embedded message.
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