OK, forgive me if I'm YARTing or I could RATA somewhere else, but I did a search, and it was difficult to narrow down. (And this is *not a food thread!)

Right, now that all the preliminaries are out of the way, can anyone tell me where the term cookie came from for those things that land in your computer and allow you to do stuff from/on websites?

I've looked up http://www.cookiecentral.com and found way too much technological mumbo-jumbo for me, but couldn't find why the name.

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Hev