the.com/cookie
a crumbly bribe that taught browsers and grandmothers the same trick: track you with treats
means A small sweet baked treat, or in computing a small piece of data a website stores in your browser to remember you across visits.
from From the Dutch 'koekje,' meaning 'little cake,' carried over by Dutch settlers and naturalized in American English while British speakers kept saying 'biscuit.' The computing sense was coined in the 1990s by web programmers, borrowing from an older programmer term 'magic cookie' — a token of data passed between programs — itself a nod to the edible kind handed over and handed back.
- web origin
- Named after fortune cookies hiding hidden messages inside
- chocolate accident
- Chip cookie invented when chocolate refused to melt evenly
- NASA approved
- Cookies baked aboard the International Space Station, 2020
- monster lie
- Cookie Monster's cookies were painted rice cakes on set
girl scout cookies — annual fundraiser by girl scouts of the usa since 1917, selling 200+ million boxes yearly
fortune cookie — crispy dessert with paper slip inside, popularized in california by japanese immigrants in early 1900s
oreo — best-selling cookie globally since 1912, made by nabisco with 30+ billion sold per year