It used to be the case I distinctly remember IE during the Windows 95 era and maybe 98 as well popping up questions asking you if you want to accept cookies.

The whole cookies acceptance pop up was also in the original cookies spec somewhere down the line browsers stopped asking mostly due to the fact that sites got dependent on cookies more and more especially in the early days where there was little to no session management on the server side so you had to either use cookies to store all the state information or encode it into the URL and have your CGI script parse through it.