How We Went From Magic Cookies To The Art Of Misdirection

by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, March 18, 2021

When the first digital identity trackers were conceived in the nascent days of the web in the early 1990s, they were originally coined "magic cookies."

The term came from a concept already utilized by computer programmers, but early web developers lent the name to HTTP cookies, because they envisioned these …

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