cookie n.
A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between
cooperating programs. "I give him a packet, he gives me back a
cookie." The claim check you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a
perfect mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful
for is to relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the
same clothes back). Compare magic
cookie; see also fortune
cookie. Now mainstream in the specific sense of
web-browser cookies.
Node:cookie bear, Next:cookie file, Previous:cookie, Up:=
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cookie bear n. obs.
Original term, pre-Sesame-Street, for what is now universally
called a cookie monster. A
correspondent observes "In those days, hackers were actually
getting their yucks from...sit down
now...Andy Williams. Yes, that Andy
Williams. Seems he had a rather hip (by the standards of the day)
TV variety show. One of the best parts of the show was the
recurring `cookie bear' sketch. In these sketches, a guy in a
bear suit tried all sorts of tricks to get a cookie out of
Williams. The sketches would always end with Williams shrieking
(and I don't mean figuratively), `No cookies! Not now, not
ever...NEVER!!!' And the bear would fall down.
Great stuff."