Ogg

Meaning

Proper Noun

• An open bitstream container file format for audio, video, and other multimedia content.
• (unincorporated) community Randall County (county) Texas (state) USA (country).

Origin

• An abbreviation of OggSquish, a 1993 suggestion by Michael Whitsun to replace the original name (Squish) which was trademarked. Ogg was jargon from the computer game Netrek meaning roughly: to put all your resources into an attack to ensure its success, regardless of any negative consequences on the rest of the game. Allegedly "ogg" is a corruption of Og, the screen-name of the player who first played the game this way.