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The Magic Cookie: How Lou Montulli Cured the Web’s Amnesia (netguru.com)
28 points by fagnerbrack on Sept 30, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I don't particularly like this site's formatting. Enormous font and padding means I feel like I have to scroll after reading every sentence, and it's annoying having so little on screen at once and having to remember everything that's just been said.


> This was the problem that Montulli found himself wrestling with in the middle of 1994. He was solving a very local problem: how do you create a sustained user session without compromising the user’s privacy.

That's the neat thing: You don't.




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