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by xSxY3fj5gVCmvWE
1418 days ago
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What exactly is the useful part, though? I mean, it's technically wrong. I don't see how this description improves layman understanding of cookies, much less to the point of offsetting the wrongness of it. In fact, you could argue "text files" is straight up confusing: you'd expect them to be human-readable, but they're not. They're machine-oriented data, often with several layers of encoding and serialization. The article was right at the time of writing, and it's even righter today. |
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At least in Internet Explorer 3 and Netscape Navigator, cookies were stored as individual files in the file system. In that sense at some point in time it was somewhat correct.
However the relevant part: On e in a time computer users knew files and we're working a lot with them. Operating systems like Windows 95 pushed files into the front (instead of first picking the program and in the program opening the thing they pushed Explorer to "explore the computer" and then finding the right program for the file) There a file was a understandable unit of data.