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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

cookie

A cookie is a piece of information sent to a browser by a web server when a particular site is visited. The browser then returns that information to the server when that particular website is revisited. For example, an online shopping site might use a cookie to remember which items you've placed in your online shopping cart.

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Internet/web › web programming
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