fortune cookie
n : thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper
fortune cookie
({WAITS}, via the {Unix} "fortune" program) A quotation, item
of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection
(the "{cookie file}") and printed to the user's tty at login
time or (less commonly) at logout time.
There was a fortune program on {TOPS-20}.
[First program?]
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-02-14)