seldoericlaw 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...
seldoericlaw 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...