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]Last updated: 1995-02-14
Nearby terms:
Fortrash ♦ FORTRUNCIBLE ♦ fortune cookie ♦ forum ♦ for values of ♦ forward
Try this search on Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, OneLook.
Loading
