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seldo ericlaw So magic cookie refers specifically to a single line of information like constant declarations at the beginning of a file, this idea seems to have reminded people of ticker tape and collided with the cookie file, which was literally a list of single line sayings...
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seldo ericlaw Those sayings were shown at login or logout and usually rotated, like Slack boot messages. Web cookies were originally imagined as set by the browser to init state, similar to the magic cookie setting up data for a program and also a single line...
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seldo ericlaw And they exist in what, to the browser, is a set of single lines of data that started as constants set on the server side. So fortune cookie > magic cookie > web cookie arxiv.org/abs/cs/0105018 catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic-number.html books.google.com/books?id=1KtfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=magic+cookie+hackers+dictionary&source=bl&ots=tpiNHXu-Z-&sig=ACfU3U2BgCGGXt_Z2lXRZz97vynYJOT6_w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxjdL7yYXnAhWEnFkKHb3bCJkQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22fortune%20cookie%22&f=false
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seldo ericlaw God bless Gutenberg for accidentally making a searchable jargon file. You want to really have fun? Servers spell referrer as referer because someone forgot to add the word to the Unix dictionary. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
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seldo ericlaw Also, the format for servers Netscape specified is quite imitative of magic cookies, which also set system states when logged in and in an ssh look particularly more fortune cookie-esqe erikoest.dk/cookies.htm
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seldo ericlaw Oops, wrong jargon cookie link, here's the right one: catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic-cookie.html
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seldo ericlaw Always trust The Jargon File. :) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File
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seldo ericlaw There's also the mostly apocryphal virus/prank that was a thing believed to exist for real that they portrayed in Hackers in a very fictionalized form prob mixed in there somewhere, but it is def not preceding those uses. youtu.be/UkGhuXTasQc
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seldo ericlaw There's also evidence that someone implied the saying 'you give X, you get a cookie' with describing that return as a 'magic cookie' in describing fseek's functionality. But tbh 'fortune cookie' seems more likely.
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seldo ericlaw (hopefully this isn't too 'splain-y, but I do love weird hacker history)
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