[CrackMonkey] Lore: cookie

[George J.P. Perry]

Evil Crackmonkey Brain Grease... full speed ahead.  -g

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Joey Hess wrote:

> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:57:29 -0800
> From: Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net>
> To: "George J.P. Perry" <geoperry at iww.org>
> Cc: Schmoken Sie Crack? <crackmonkey at crackmonkey.org>
> Subject: Re: [CrackMonkey] Lore: cookie
> 
> George J.P. Perry wrote:
> > Once upon a time, there was a hack called 'cookie'. This lived in /usr/games on
> > Unix, /[some directory i don't remember]/games on Multics, and on most other
> > mainframes too.
> > 
> > >From time to time clueless newbies would notice "hey, there's a games directory
> > on this system!" and see a program called 'cookie'. They'd run it. It'd
> > seemingly do nothing.
> > 
> > A few minutes later, suddenly the phrase "I want a cookie" would appear while
> > you were merrily working on something else. If you kept typing, the moment you
> > pressed the ENTER key nothing would happen -- instead, it'd say "No, I said I
> > want a cookie!".  The only way to get back to work was to type the word
> > "cookie" (give it what it wanted), press ENTER, then it let go of your keyboard.
> 
> Ok, someone write this and I'll get it into bsdgames.
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo
>