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From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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HTTP Cookies and the Invention of State on the Stateless Web

HTTP cookies gave web applications a small client-side mechanism for carrying state across otherwise separate requests, enabling shopping carts and login sessions while also opening the door to cross-site tracking.

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