Talk:Buzzword bingo

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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