This is what the Google Ngram Viewer shows for the term "Mojang". It would be really interesting to figure out what Mojang was doing at various points to make them so popular (the viewer only tracks through the year 2008 so obviously Minecraft and probably even Cave Game would not be a factor).
The company that develops Minecraft didn't exist prior to 2009, with a company using a similar name founded by Notch in 2007, who reused it after they left with the original company later changing its name:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Mojang&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1;,mojang;,c0
This is what the Google Ngram Viewer shows for the term "Mojang". It would be really interesting to figure out what Mojang was doing at various points to make them so popular (the viewer only tracks through the year 2008 so obviously Minecraft and probably even Cave Game would not be a factor).
The company that develops Minecraft didn't exist prior to 2009, with a company using a similar name founded by Notch in 2007, who reused it after they left with the original company later changing its name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Club_AB
Most likely, any earlier references have to do with the fact that "Mojang" (more properly written as "mojäng") means "gadget" in Swedish:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mojäng
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?