Why "favicon" why not "browsercon" or "webicon" who named these stuff

The web is older than the Egyptian Pyramids. It’s full of ancient names which make less sense than the hieroglyphs.

The term "favicon" is a combination of the words "favorite" and "icon." It was first introduced by Microsoft in Internet Explorer 5 in 1999 as a way to allow website designers to customize the icon that appears next to the URL in the browser's address bar, as well as in bookmarks and tabs.

The idea behind favicons was to provide a way for users to easily identify and locate their favorite websites. The original purpose of the favicon was to allow users to quickly locate their favorite bookmarks in the browser's bookmarks bar, as well as to distinguish between multiple tabs open at once.

Since then, the use of favicons has expanded to include mobile device home screens, social media platforms, and other digital media. Today, favicons have become an essential element of website design and branding, and they are used by millions of websites around the world to create a unique and memorable online identity.

(Source: ChatGPT) 😛

Because we used to save things as Favourites in the dark ages.

Now their collections or bookmarks.

@C0D4 Exactly. The bookmarks where named favourites. Way better answer as half baked chat gpt gibberish as always.

@horus This is somewhat ironic though. The term evolved from favorite to bookmark, but the web evolved from a book-like medium to kind of an app store accessed via the browser where the term favorite would be more fitting than bookmark.

@Lensflare Pretty ironic, thats right! Never saw it this way.

Same ppl who named emoji instead of emoticon.

@neriald Emoji and emoticon actually refer to different things, emoji are the tiny pictures, while emoticons are things like (づ ◕‿◕ )づ

@SalsaGal huh I didn’t know that O.o

This an educational thread. Now someone explain the term cookie!

@horus ooh I know this one.

because it sound better then it's real name 😅

Persistent client state in a hypertext transfer protocol,

or something like a fortune cookie with message inside.

The name is correct, it's just your context that's incomplete, because you are too young.