Why We Call Cookies Cookies

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The inventor of the cookie, Lou Montulli, confirmed via email that "Cookies are named after the computer science term "magic cookie" If Cookies were called surveillance tokens, I imagine they'd be less widely accepted as web development magic. If cookies were called Surveillance tokens, they might not be accepted as a web development tool, they may not be as web-development magic as they are called "magic cookies" or "surveillance tokens" The Magic Cookie is a web-developing technology that uses the term "Magic Cookie"