Editing Buzzword bingo (section)

== Creation and popularization ==
The game has existed for many years, though without a universally-used name, and it is likely that its creation can be credited to several people working independently. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/endmar22news.htm#Snookered |title=Snookered |access-date=2022-03-25 }}</ref> 

By 1992, college students in the USA were playing a game called "turkey bingo" where they guessed which classmates would dominate conversations in classrooms.<ref>{{cite book|title=Making Elite Lawyers: Visions of Law at Harvard and Beyond|last=Granfield|first=Robert|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=1992|isbn=9780415904087|page=81}}</ref>  This led to a variant popular in business schools called "bullshit bingo" based on overused business lingo.<ref>{{cite book|title=Teaching with Cases: A Practical Guide|last1=Anderson|first1=Espen|last2=Schiano|first2=Bill|publisher=[[Harvard Business Review]]|year=2014|isbn=9781633691131|chapter=How Should I Deal With Student Pranks?|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYXDCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT142}}</ref>  The Buzzword Bingo name was coined in early 1993 in an internal [[Silicon Graphics]] tool made by principal scientist Tom Davis in collaboration with Seth Katz, and popularized in 1993 in the first public web version by fellow employee Chris Pirazzi <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB897015806686100000|title=Unsuspecting Executives Become Fair Game in 'Buzzword Bingo'|last1=MacDonald|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Nomani|first2=Asra Q.|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=1998-06-08|access-date=2016-12-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://lurkertech.com/buzzword-bingo/ |title=Tom Davis's Buzzword Bingo |last=Pirazzi |first=Chris |access-date=2020-11-29 }}</ref> The 22 February 1994 ''[[Dilbert]]'' comic featured buzzword bingo in an office meeting.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dilbert.com/fast/1994-02-22|title=Dilbert comic for 1994-02-22|last=Adams|first=Scott|date=22 February 1994|publisher=Andrew McMeel Publishing|access-date=2009-02-14}}</ref><ref>[[Scott Adams]]: ''Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert''. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2008, {{ISBN|9780740777356}}, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=7jF1vg_A8OIC&pg=PA203 203]</ref>

One documented example occurred when [[Al Gore]], then the [[Vice President of the United States]], known for his liberal use of buzzwords in enthusiastically promoting technology, spoke at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]'s 1996 graduation. [[MIT hack]]ers had distributed bingo cards containing buzzwords to the graduating class. Gore, who had been informed of the prank, acknowledged it during his speech.<ref name=al-gore-mit-speech>{{cite web|url=http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1996/gore/ |title=Al Gore Buzzword Bingo |date=1996-06-07 |publisher=IHTFP Gallery |access-date=15 February 2009}}</ref><ref>T. F. Peterson, Eric Bender: ''Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT''. MIT Press, 2011, {{ISBN|9780262295017}}, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=VZjBk366-BAC&pg=PA126 126-127]</ref>

In 2007, IBM created a TV advertisement that was based on the concept of buzzword bingo.<ref name=ibm-buzzword-bingo-commercial>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6gL0p2_87g |title=ibm buzzwords bingo |last1=IBM |author-link=IBM |date=2008-02-13 |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=18 August 2014}}</ref> Video gaming website [[GameSpot]] hosted a video called "Executive Buzzword Bingo", in which they held a running tally of buzzwords uttered during [[Sony]]'s "PlayStation Meeting 2013" conference event on 20 February 2013.<ref name=gamespot-playstation-buzzword-bingo>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/1jeM0ENR6rI Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130225100800/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jeM0ENR6rI&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jeM0ENR6rI |title=Executive Buzzword Bingo at the PS4 Conference |last1=GameSpot |author-link=GameSpot |date=2013-02-21 |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=18 August 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>