Sk-etchbook

Cookies. You hear about them quite a bit, but what are they?

Cookies are itsy bitsy little text files stored on your computer and put there by a website you visited. They are generally useless to anyone except the pubisher (the visited website) and can only be read by them.

Cookies save details specific to you so the data does not need to be stored by the website.

They are, in short, a prefernce file with a silly name. Netscape invented the tecnology in the mid 90's and named them afer a comic "The Magic Cookie".