The OG is the Online Gargoyle, a multimedia journalism site published by and for the students of University Laboratory High School in Urbana, Ill. Led by the efforts of Angelina Liang (Class of 2006) and Ben Hyman (Class of 2007), with assistance from David Boyle ('06), Tom Wiltzius ('06), and Jonathon Baron ('07), the OG was created during the 2005-06 school year to serve as a complement to the Gargoyle, Uni High's student print newspaper. It debuted in February 2006.

In November 2006, the editorial staff decided to concentrate exclusively on publishing the online version of the Gargoyle in order to develop its full potential.

In April 2007, the Online Gargoyle was honored by receiving the Online Pacemaker award from the National Scholastic Press Association.

During the spring and summer of 2007, Ben Hyman and Isaac Chambers ('09) worked on a new version of the Online Gargoyle (version 2.0), which debuted at the start of the 2007-08 school year. The new version was completely redesigned, and included additional functionality and features. More information can be found in the Tour.

This version would not have been possible without the invaluable assistance of Jon Gilbraith on Mork authentication.

Note: As mentioned above, before the 2007-08 school year began, technical editors Ben Hyman and Isaac Chambers revamped the Online Gargoyle, installing a new content management system, Drupal. In the course of importing articles published under the old system, Movable Type, some of the original formatting of those articles changed. For example, some of the pre-August 2007 articles now have large spaces between lines where normal spacing had existed. We have tried to correct these formatting problems, but to do so entirely would require more time than has been available since the start of the school year, since more than 1,000 articles were imported. We will do our best to fix those formatting issues after the current school year ends. All articles published since Aug. 15, 2007, should have no formatting problems.