Talk:Buzzword bingo/Archives/2012

Origins

It seems odd that there's no mention of Dilbert here, which is where I and many of my friends first heard about Buzzword Bingo. Or so I thought. Am I misremembering? --Randal L. Schwartz 14:06, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

I asked Scott Adams about the Dilbert Buzzword Bingo strip when I was making suggestions for another strip and he told me he received a couple of cards from someone at Silicon Graphics. Those cards were almost certainly generated by the program I wrote.

I think it is impossible to assign a true creator of Buzzword Bingo since as soon as the Wall Street Journal article about it appeared naming me as its creator, I heard from three different friends that they knew of other versions that had existed long before at other companies or universities. I think it is such an easy concept that it has been independently reinvented many, many times. --Tom Davis January 9, 2006

In any case, MIT's 1996 Buzzword Bingo is definitely not the first instance of this game, and I edited the Wikipedia entry to remove that assertion. Tom Davis' reports having it at SGI in 1993, and I've heard reports of it at NeXT Computer around the same time, including a fun occurrence where someone acting in concert with the speaker at the meeting handed out apparently random Buzzword Bingo cards that were designed to give everyone in the room a bingo at the same point in the speech :-). --Charles 2006-01-19

I first heard of it in 1992 or 1993, during an OpenGL ARB meeting, from Kurt Akeley at SGI; I guess he was referring to Tom Davis' version. I don't know if he knew that Tom did it, I don't think they'd apprehended the culprits. (Hi Tom!) linas (talk) 17:11, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Bullshit bingo

How is "bullshit bingo" a satirical version? Isn't it just another name for the same thing? Personally I've only ever heard it called bullshit bingo. --John 17-11-07

I tend to agree with the comment of John. Bullshit bingo is a synonym of buzzword bingo. At least, I often hear more often the term "bullshit bingo" than "buzzword bingo" in the same context.-- AlexandreDulaunoy (talk) 09:12, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

It was called "buzzword bingo" when I first heard of it in 1992/1993. Come to think of it, I later saw an article in a trade mag about it, later on. linas (talk) 17:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Link to implementations

There is a link to an iPhone version of the game. When I added a link to an Android version of the game, it was removed. Why ? I suggest either both links are removed or both links are allowed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.51.25.183 (talk) 13:04, 16 September 2010 (UTC)