On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:09:04 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>En op 14 maart 2002 sprak Bart Lateur:
>> Don't say you've never heard of "cookies".
>
>cookie. US, a small sweet biscuit.
>biscuit. Brit, a small unleavened cake.
>
>I apologize for my ignorance, but when I installed Windows,
>I asked for "English (Oxford)" and not "English (US)",
>and so Internet Explorer obediently talks only about
>"biscuits" and not "cookies".
I am, of course, talking of HTTP related cookies.
<http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2109.html>
I don't know who came up with the name, but I distinctly remember that
the Atari ST, a computer that came out around 1985, had a feature called
a "cookie jar". You may compare it to the widespread mechanism of
environment variables.
This link, too, distinctly traces back the usage of the word "cookie" to
the Atari ST:
<http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/c/cookiejar.html>
--
Bart.
