Cookie Timeline: The Middle Years…
Summer 1997 (Netscape 4.0; IE 4.0)
In Netscape 4.0 can accept some classes of cookies but not others
Default: Accept all cookies
Spring 1999 (Netscape 4.6; IE 5.0)
Virtually no changes from Netscape 4.0 to 4.6
In IE 5.0 can accept some classes of cookies
In IE 5.0 cookies settings are tied to security zones (only one zone tells the user the cookie setting)
Default: Accept all cookies