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> What matters, however, is not the cookie. It’s what makes the cookie necessary in the first place: the Web’s mainframe-based architecture. It’s called client-server,

Do you want to keep your home computer on 24/7? No? Well then you need a server.

The article is making that out to be some deeply flawed ancient paradigm when the simple truth is that this divide exists because there are two kinds of computer usage: Intermittent, and Always-Available.



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