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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cookie monster</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cookie-jar.html" title="cookie jar"/><link rel="next" href="copious-free-time.html" title="copious free time"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cookie monster</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cookie-jar.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="copious-free-time.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cookie-monster"/><dt xmlns="" id="cookie-monster"><b>cookie monster</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the children's TV program <i class="citetitle">Sesame
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Street</i>] Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on
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<a href="../T/TOPS-10.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-10</i></a>, <a href="../I/ITS.html"><i class="glossterm">ITS</i></a>,
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<a href="../M/Multics.html"><i class="glossterm">Multics</i></a>, and elsewhere that would lock up either the
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victim's terminal (on a timesharing machine) or the
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<a href="console.html"><i class="glossterm">console</i></a> (on a batch
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<a href="../M/mainframe.html"><i class="glossterm">mainframe</i></a>), repeatedly demanding “<span class="quote">I WANT A
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COOKIE</span>”. The required responses ranged in complexity from
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“<span class="quote">COOKIE</span>” through “<span class="quote">HAVE A COOKIE</span>” and upward.
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Folklorist Jan Brunvand (see <a href="../F/FOAF.html"><i class="glossterm">FOAF</i></a>) has described
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these programs as urban legends (implying they probably never existed) but
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they existed, all right, in several different versions. See also
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<a href="../W/wabbit.html"><i class="glossterm">wabbit</i></a>. Interestingly, the term <span class="firstterm">cookie monster</span> appears to be a
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<a href="../R/retcon.html"><i class="glossterm">retcon</i></a>; the original term was
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<a href="cookie-bear.html"><i class="glossterm">cookie bear</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cookie-jar.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="copious-free-time.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cookie jar </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> copious free time</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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