Cookies, gift-giving, and the Internet

Bays, Hillary; Mowbray, Miranda

First Monday
(ReLIS:doi:firmon:y:1999:v:4:i:11:p:7)

Abstract:

This paper arose from a question: why are there so many connections between cookies and the Internet? Described are some of these connections.

Creation: 01 Nov 1999
Keywords: Internet gift economy, cookies and Internet, social context of cookies, Web cookies, freedom of information, FOI, magic cookie, GNU emacs, Internet and food-related metaphors, morsels of data, cookie terminology, symbolic sustenance, resource sharing, cookie-givers, gift-giving philosophy, article

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