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Cookies have always been covered in the web development literature, but usually with a quick nod, a light example, and a gentle warning about the privacy implications of such strange sleuths. Their structure is extremely simple, a mere container for simple variable data, but the implications are enormous. Sites that want to create shopping environments and sites interested in collecting data on the browsing habits of their readers are two of the most common environments for cookie use, but subscription systems, security systems, and even hypertext art forms can ... make use of cookies.
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Cookies have been attributed to everything from an extension of big brother to the be all, end all, marketing solution. As is usually the case, this piece of technology fits neither description. Cookies a are powerful, yet limited, tool that even the occasional web surfer should understand.
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Version 0.9beta of Mosaic Netscape, released on October 13, 1994[25][26], supported cookies. The first actual use of cookies (out of the labs) was made for checking whether visitors to the Netscape Web site had already visited the site. Montulli applied for a patent for the cookie technology in 1995; it was granted in 1998. Support for cookies was integrated in Internet Explorer in version 2, released in October 1995.[27]
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