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Together with John Giannandrea, Montulli wrote the initial Netscape cookie specification the same year. Version 0.9beta of [[Netscape Navigator|Mosaic Netscape]], released on October 13, 1994,<ref name="JgNeY">{{cite web |url=http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease1.html |title=Press Release: Netscape Communications Offers New Network Navigator Free On The Internet |access-date=2010-05-22 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061207145832/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease1.html |archive-date=2006-12-07}}</ref><ref name="8YpTv">{{cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.users/msg/9a210e5f72278328 |title=Usenet Post by Marc Andreessen: Here it is, world! |date=1994-10-13 |access-date=2010-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427123350/http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.users/msg/9a210e5f72278328 |archive-date=2011-04-27 |url-status=live}}</ref> supported cookies.<ref name="kristol" /> The first use of cookies (out of the labs) was checking whether visitors to the Netscape website had already visited the site. Montulli applied for a patent for the cookie technology in 1995, which was granted in 1998.<ref>{{Cite patent|country=US|number=5774670|pubdate=1998-06-30|title=Persistent client state in a hypertext transfer protocol based client-server system|assign1=[[Netscape Communications Corp.]]|inventor1-last=Montulli|inventor1-first=Lou}}</ref> Support for cookies was integrated with [[Internet Explorer]] in version 2, released in October 1995.<ref name="95BiI">{{cite news |first=Sandi |last=Hardmeier |url=https://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/historyofie.mspx |title=The history of Internet Explorer |publisher=Microsoft |date=2005-08-25 |access-date=2009-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051001113951/http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/historyofie.mspx |archive-date=2005-10-01 |url-status=live}}</ref>
The introduction of cookies was not widely known to the public at the time. In particular, cookies were accepted by default, and users were not notified of their presence.<ref>{{
The development of the formal cookie specifications was already ongoing. In particular, the first discussions about a formal specification started in April 1995 on the www-talk [[electronic mailing list|mailing list]]. A special working group within the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF) was formed. Two alternative proposals for introducing state in HTTP transactions had been proposed by [[Brian Behlendorf]] and David Kristol respectively. But the group, headed by Kristol himself and Lou Montulli, soon decided to use the Netscape specification as a starting point. In February 1996, the working group identified third-party cookies as a considerable privacy threat. The specification produced by the group was eventually published as RFC 2109 in February 1997. It specifies that third-party cookies were either not allowed at all, or at least not enabled by default.<ref name="RFC2109">{{Cite ietf|rfc=2109 |section=8.3 }}</ref> At this time, advertising companies were already using third-party cookies. The recommendation about third-party cookies of RFC 2109 was not followed by Netscape and Internet Explorer. RFC 2109 was superseded by RFC 2965 in October 2000.
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A ''persistent cookie'' expires at a specific date or after a specific length of time. For the persistent cookie's lifespan set by its creator, its information will be transmitted to the server every time the user visits the website that it belongs to, or every time the user views a resource belonging to that website from another website (such as an advertisement).
For this reason, persistent cookies are sometimes referred to as ''tracking cookies''<ref>{{
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