How advertisers ruined a good idea

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Cookies sure do be wild ▬▬ Support the Channel ▬▬ Join for just $1/month for early access to videos, a supporter only Discord (we play games sometimes!), and more! https://www.patreon.com/RejectConvenience https://www.youtube.com/channel/@rejectconvenience/join https://ko-fi.com/rejectconvenience ▬▬ References ▬▬ CERN World Wide Web proposal from 1989: https://web.archive.org/web/20100401051011/https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html Tim Jackson, “This bug in your pc is a smart cookie,” Financial Times Feb 12 1996 (Page 31): https://ia800607.us.archive.org/24/items/FinancialTimes1996UKEnglish/Feb%2012%201996%2C%20Financial%20Times%2C%20%2312%2C%20UK%20%28en%29.pdf HTTP Cookies: Standards, Privacy, and Politics by David M. Kristol: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0105018 HTTP State Management Mechanism (rfc2109): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2109 Giving Web a Memory Cost Its Users Privacy by John Schwartz: https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/business/giving-web-a-memory-cost-its-users-privacy.html Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open by Peter H. Lewis (Sting CD purchase): https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/12/business/attention-shoppers-internet-is-open.html BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; A Free and Simple Computer Link by John Markoff (regarding the rise of the Mosaic browser): https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/business/business-technology-a-free-and-simple-computer-link.html An example of online shopping before the World Wide Web protocol: https://www.deseret.com/1995/3/6/19162766/looking-for-a-rare-book-checking-internet-is-a-novel-idea/ What is a third party cookie: https://www.ketch.com/blog/posts/what-is-a-third-party-cookie Internet Explorer comes out of nowhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3T-Nx-fwNY AOL buys Netscape for $10,000,000,000: https://web.archive.org/web/20171107021707/http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=741 Netscape to Mozilla pipeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation Interviews with Lou Montulli (the invention of the cookie): Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwvKew15o0c Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpgX6ZEocE President of Signal article: https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/ Link if you don’t want to pay for wired for the above article: https://rejectconvenience.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42 ▬▬ Resources ▬▬ Reject Convenience Forum: https://rejectconvenience.com/forum/ Forum post for this video: hhttps://rejectconvenience.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=78 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/ https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/win95/4.00.950/ https://guidebookgallery.org/index https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/geocities-1994 Fingerprinting resources: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/about https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/kcarter https://www.amiunique.org/faq https://www.amiunique.org/privacy-tools/ https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-against-fingerprinting ▬▬ Credit and Special Thanks ▬▬ Audio production by [lý] – https://lyismusic.dk/ – https://www.instagram.com/ly_is_music ▬▬ Licenses and Attributions ▬▬ "90's Computer" by Cameron-Main – https://skfb.ly/6XP9r – License: Attribution 4.0 ▬▬ Timestamps ▬▬ 00:00 Intro 00:25 Genesis of the World Wide Web 03:16 Persistent Client State Objects 06:40 Behold, the Internet Cookie! 08:50 One Small Oversight 11:16 Consequential Compromise 15:00 Annihilation of the First Mosaic Killer 16:16 The Devil We Don’t Know 18:14 Perks to an Open Standard #cookies #educational #rejectconvenience CTC