Ogg
English
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Etymology
[edit]An abbreviation of OggSquish, a 1993 suggestion by Michael Whitsun to replace the original name (Squish) which was trademarked.[1] 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.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Ogg
- (file format) An open bitstream container file format for audio, video, and other multimedia content.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Randall County, Texas, United States.
Alternate forms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2009 February 14 (last accessed), archived from the original on 27 February 2012
- ^ http://www.netrek.org/about/akira-history-of-ogg.php
Further reading
[edit]- https://web.archive.org/web/20130203234214/http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ – official website
Anagrams
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