Content deleted Content added
updating cites |
removing claim about origin of the term - the link is to a web design/SEO company and that page doesn't show its work; meanwhile, the talk page at Magic cookie (on which the same claim and link appeared and has been removed) has a lot of evidence that the origin is unknown |
||
Line 17:
===Origin of the name===
The term ''cookie'' was coined by web-browser programmer [[Lou Montulli]]. 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.<ref name="wdi6I">{{cite web|url=http://dominopower.com/article/where-cookie-comes-from/|title=Where cookie comes from :: DominoPower|website=dominopower.com|access-date=19 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019174750/http://dominopower.com/article/where-cookie-comes-from/|archive-date=19 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="xVtjM">{{cite web|editor-last1=Raymond|editor-first1=Eric |title=magic cookie|url=http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic-cookie.html|website=The Jargon File (version 4.4.7)|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906230653/http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic-cookie.html|archive-date=6 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
===History===
| |||