Hacker Dictionary


Welcome to Professor F . com's Hacker Dictionary. I created a database version of the Jargon file at www.jargon.org (Jargon File 4.2.3), which is maintained by Eric S. Raymond (esr@snark.thyrsus.com). Rank the words or feel free to contribute your own!

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cookie monster

n. [from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on {{TOPS-10}}, {{ITS}}, {{Multics}}, and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the {{console}} (on a batch {mainframe}), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. Folklorist Jan Brunvand (see {FOAF}) has described these programs as urban legends (implying they probably never existed) but they existed, all right, in several different versions. See also {wabbit}. Interestingly, the term `cookie monster' appears to be a {retcon}; the original term was {cookie bear}.

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