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Web-cookies revolutionized the web because they gave it a memory. Cookies gave your actions on the web a ‘past’, which you have no idea about or access to. This think piece encourages an examination of ‘technical’ and ‘boring’ media phenomena such as cookies and spam, and points to their important contribution to the way we experience and understand the web.

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advertising European Union Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)spam standards web-cookies

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Review: Cookies – More than Meets the Eye

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