Authentication 파트에서 cookie에 대해서 배우다가 어원에 대해 궁금증이 생겼다.
cookie의 어원을 찾다가 위키에서 다음과 같은 글을 읽었다.
COOKIE
Origin of the Name
The term "cookie" was coined by web-browser programmer Lou Montulli. It was derived from the term "magic cookie", which is a packet of data a program receives and sends back unchanged, used by Unix programmers.
(wikipedia)
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Cookie is a small bit of information that travels from a browser to the web server. It was coined from the term ‘magic cookies’ that derives from a fortune cookie; a cookie with an embedded message.
(inlife.co.uk)
COIN
to invent a new word or expression, or to use one in a particular way for the first time
(Camgridge English Dictionary)