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[from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10 , ITS , Multics , and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe ), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE". The required responses ranged in complexity from "COOKIE" through "HAVE A COOKIE" and upward. Folklorist Jan Brunvand (see FOAF ) has described these programs as urban legends (implying they probably never existed) but they existed, all right, in several different versions. See also wabbit . Interestingly, the term `cookie monster' appears to be a retcon ; the original term was cookie bear .