It's interesting that the author writes this whole rant about the stupidity of describing cookies as "small text files" and how that's a ridiculous and incorrect abstraction, without realizing that cookies used to be exactly that, for a very long time, and putting them in a sqlite database is a relatively recent idea, especially at the time that this was written.

I can imagine their rant upon finding a text that describes a telephone as a desktop device connected to the telephone network with a wire. "What kind of fool would describe a cellular data connection as a wire?"

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to look really silly.