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by thaumasiotes 74 days ago
> and colloquially people just called Vorbis-encoded audio "ogg" because of the ogg container.

I would bet that the primary reason wasn't the container format, which nobody really cares about and most users wouldn't have been aware of, but rather the fact that the file extension was '.ogg'.

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Kinda happens everywhere. "I'll send it to you as an MP4" versus "I'll send it to you as an h264+aac"
That is what I meant.