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What are computer cookies?

Asked by funadvice about 1 year ago, 9 answers.

what do cookies mean??? I mean in computers, not the food lol.

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Answered by five_minutes_to_midnite on May 09, 2008, 06:26PM
146 answers

I don't know..I thnk it could be like some fer password..
cause I had to use it when I first signed up for cyberschool...
but im not sure

Answered by djwager on May 09, 2008, 06:29PM
431 answers

A cookie is something the computer saves in a folder to make accessing the internet faster in future visits to the site, the more you visit the more information it saves to your computer to make it faster and faster each time you visit happy its got for streamed videos like youtube. hope it helps

I have no idea why they are called cookies though... (maybe its because its something made of a lot of smaller things)

Answered by funadvice on May 09, 2008, 06:29PM
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hello??? can somone actually give me advice here???

Answered by imme on May 09, 2008, 06:34PM
953 answers

djwager just gave you good advice!! lol
but I have no idea what cookies are!!

Answered by funadvice on May 09, 2008, 06:40PM
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yeah I know, my computer just freaked out, it just showed the first answer... sorry djwager

Answered by funadvice on May 09, 2008, 06:42PM
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I agree with anna 13. Im not sure what they are but I think they are named that like djwager said made up of a bunch of thing like crumbs from a cookie. Not sure thats right but it sounds good to me! Oh yeah, why do you even need to know?? Go to like best buy and ask the Geek Squad!! joke unless you like that idea. whatever BYE

Answered by odal on May 09, 2008, 06:59PM
320 answers

I think djwager is actually talking about cache and not cookies.

HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term cookie is derived from magic cookie, a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.

A magic cookie or just cookie for short, is a token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, where the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program. The contents are opaque and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the cookie data back to the sender or perhaps another program at a later time. The cookie is often used like a ticket; to identify a particular event or transaction.