What are computer cookies?

I don’t know..I thnk it could be like some fer password.. cause I had to use it when I first signed up for cyberschool… but im not sure

yeah I know, my computer just freaked out, it just showed the first answer… sorry djwager

djwager” just gave you good advice!! lol but I have no idea what cookies are!!

A cookie is something the computer saves in a folder to make accessing the internet faster in future visits to the site, the more you visit the more information it saves to your computer to make it faster and faster each time you visit :) its got for streamed videos like youtube. hope it helps

I have no idea why they are called cookies though… (maybe its because its something made of a lot of smaller things)

Because they’re so delicious

I think djwager is actually talking about “cache” and not “cookies”.

HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term “cookie” is derived from “magic cookie,” a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.

A magic cookie or just cookie for short, is a token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, where the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program. The contents are opaque and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the cookie data back to the sender or perhaps another program at a later time. The cookie is often used like a ticket; to identify a particular event or transaction.

why do they call them cookies??

hello??? can somone actually give me advice here???