RickI did not catch this đ
webhat@JetForMe what? OMG đ± I totally missed this
Marcin Krzyzanowski@JetForMe wait. accepting cookies was not a thing in 2000
@krzyzanowskim it was between programs
nex@JetForMe Meh ⊠whether a user agent saves a cookie or ignores it makes no difference for a server. (Only whether it gets sent back along with subsequent requests.) What would ânot acceptingâ a cookie look like â terminating the connection instead of loading the page?
The original joke is great, but it works _now_. When the film came out, such a subtext or humorous allusion couldn't have been intended.
Roger Mexico@krzyzanowskim @JetForMe I think it was. We still called them "magic cookies" back then. They just weren't ubiquitous like now.
Officer-involved pooping
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greeeen :nb_verified::verifiedbi::verifiedlesbian:@JetForMe i thought the matrix was older than cookies, but no. cookies are from 1995 and the matrix is from 1999
@green It's older than GDPR cookie consent, but yeah, I'm willing to believe this was about browser cookies.
PointlessOne 
@JetForMe @green Cookies are older than the movie but the movie came before EUâs ePrivacy Directive (2002). Before the directive no one asked for any permission. So itâs absolutely coincidental.
That said, IIRC there was an extended scene that gave some extra context to the cookie but it wasnât a reference to the web cookies.
Steven G. Harms@JetForMe One word: âWhoa.â
Ceremus@JetForMe Whoever is remembering this has the timeline backwards, Oracle is finishing baking the cookies as Neo enters and gives him one as he's leaving.
The point still kind of stands though, because there are a lot of (unconfirmed) theories that the cookie was a code container to activate Neo as "The One" once he was "rebooted", IE after he was shot.
Jhooper
Andrew@JetForMe were cookie accept dialogs even a thing in the 90s?
@cinebox No, but the cookies themselves were.
alcinnz
BassRck50@JetForMe
Sad~Trombone...
Sad~Trombone...
Chris Radcliff@JetForMe 25 years, working on the web the whole time, and it never occurred to me.
Mister Moo đź@JetForMe She gives him the cookie after their interaction. Has no one here seen the movie? âHave a cookie. I promise by the time youâre done eating it, youâll start feeling better. Youâll remember that you donât believe in any of this fate crap. Youâre in control of your own life. Remember?â
Log đȘ”@JetForMe Usually, the Oracle demands huge license fees in order to use its database.
Are you telling me that I can dodge EU data privacy restrictions?
No, Neo: when youâre ready, you wonât have to.
Michael Horne
StarkRG@JetForMe I'm pretty sure she put something in that cookie too. She tells him to eat it and that he'll feel better about things soon and he does, almost immediately, which suggests it probably isn't just a weed cookie. My guess is that it was some kind of bootstrap code that triggered when he died, possibly with whatever cryptographic keys would be needed to turn him into The One. Also probably some weed.
tobias graber
JF 
@JetForMe I am going to have to watch it again
Was the cookie first or last?
@jfparis Toward the end, I think.
@JetForMe
I thought so and I want to check
It loses a bit of the symbolism if that is the case
@jfparis Indeed. Then again, the writers probably didnât understand the technicalities (or chose not to respect them), as is typical in sci-fi writing, and wrote the scene in a way they felt was most natural.
johne
rrix@JetForMe The EU cookie directive which lead to âinformed consentâ model of third-party tracking happened in 2002
Trainer Jace@JetForMe omfggggggg
Nirro@JetForMe that's because it's probably not there. đ
Being offered the cookie is the last thing in that scene, not the first. Besides, cookies were introduced around the 95', and they became popular in the mainstream way later. It's unlikely the Wachowskis had heard of them at the time of writing the film. It's an entertaining notion nonetheless.
SkipfordJ@JetForMe HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS
S T E L L A R 
@JetForMe fuck same
Alexey Skobkin@JetForMe
That's too early for such a problem. But still funny.
That's too early for such a problem. But still funny.
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