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Sometimes when I sit back and think about programming and what we nerds use for names, I just have to laugh. I am currently referring to a book where I realized that a problem is caused by the fact that a cookie value cannot contain whitespace. So, the answer is to escape the cookie value and then unescape it later as needed.

Cookies, Java, Virus, Worm, Trojan, Apple, Bug

What happened to the good old days of acronyms: IBM, BASIC and such ;-) I guess that bug goes back a long way and was not even a metaphor at the time it was first used but literally an insect in the computer hardware.

For the curious, more about this is available at this wiki (there's another one) with a list of computer term etymologies.