The NYTimes has a nice Story on the guy that invented \”cookies\”, Lou Montulli. He was employee #9 at Netscape… Just imagine those stock options! He left Netscape in 1998, a millionaire many times over to create epinions.com and they say he has since left that company as well.
It\’s a good story for a little piece of web history, and they also cover all the privacy troubles with cookies.
\”A recent survey by Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling organization, found that 67 percent of Americans identify online privacy as a big concern — far more than those who identify fighting crime (55 percent) or building an antimissile shield (22 percent).\”
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