Ogging is term for a strategy developed for an online multiplayer game called XPilot and the later version of the game called Netrek. These games were popular in the early to mid 1990's as they were compiled for Unix which was the source of most of the internet access available at the time, mainly through universities. XPilot is a heavily improved multiplayer able Asteroids-like clone. ... Netrek is a multiplayer real-time internet strategy game for up to 16 players. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to UNIX Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...

The "ogg" was a kamikaze style attack with the goal of eliminating a target of high importance without regard for the survival of your own ship. It was typically used to destroy enemy ships carrying armies or as a coordinated multi-ship ogg against a starbase. A kamikaze, a Mitsubishi Zero in this case, about to hit the USS Missouri. ...

History

In these games, ships are depicted on-screen as a two letter combination where the first letter represents your team and the second letter represents your ship. For example, Ka was a Klingon ship assigned to be represented by the letter 'a'. Og, therefore, was an Orion ship assigned to the letter 'g'. Although the specifics of the origin of the term are lost to the mists of time, discussion on the Netrek newsgroup has suggested that the term was first coined by a player who happened to have been assigned the designation Og and this is what people would frantically type out when his brand of attack was coming -- "Og!". The second 'g' was simply added to make it more legible as a regular word (similar to egg). It has been suggested that MoQbara be merged into this article or section. ... A newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users at different locations. ...