Xander,
I did not say it was common knowledge. It is, however, common knowledge among power users, and of course IT people. Kent, for example, has no education whatsoever in computing, and never worked in the IT business.
No mention is made of them in the window manual. Indeed, there is NOT ONE reference to them even in the Win98 or Win2k help file (don't have XP at work, but I bet no mention is made there, either).
*Cough*. When using IE, press F1. Go to Index, "cookies". There you are.
- Jan