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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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