Does anyone know the origin of the word “cookies” that are used in web pages?
Thank you
It comes from “magic cookie”, a term for a generic token in client/server programming.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/magic-cookie.html
Another useful Jargon File entry is this one.
I’m not sure of the etymology, but I believe the term was coined at MIT.
The MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE protocol for authentication in the X11 system has been around for quite soem time.