History
In 1999 I was working for a software company in San Rafael, CA when a
co-worker handed me a piece of paper before a meeting. The
paper had BS Bingo printed on it. He had recently
received it via email as a Microsoft Word document, and
printed out copies for many of his co-workers before this
meeting.
While I found it quite amusing, I found the fact that
everyone had the same "card" was less enjoyable than it could
be.
That night I got the idea to build a web based version of the
game using server side scripting. Before doing so, I
searched the web with Yahoo! and AltaVista, only to find static
versions of the game. Seeing that, I knew I had to make
a random version. The version I built that night was hosted on my
personal site where it lived for 6 years.
Since then I have received many emails with suggestions for
additional phrases, and requests for specialized versions of the game.
I could always tell when the link had been sent out on a mailing list,
or was recently linked from a high traffic site by the amount of email
I would start getting with these sort of requests. Each time
these requests came in, I would think about doing more with
the page, but one thing was clear, it would need a new
home.
In October 2005 after getting linked to from a major blog, getting
a new flood of email requests for new features, and a lot of
pushing from my co-workers, I decided it was time to move the site to
a new home. That night I registered bullshitbingo.net and moved
the game over to the new domain.
-- Frank Ledo
Change Log
- 2005-10-13: Moved BS Bingo to
bullshitbingo.net
- 2005-10-14: Added a new version of the game specific to
Education as suggested by John
Hellmann.
- 2005-10-14: Added a new version of the game specific to
Software as suggested by Michael
D'Agosta.
- 2005-10-15: Added a new version of the game specific to
Marketing.
- 2005-10-16: Added the ability to mark phrases off in a web browser
using CSS and Java Script as suggested by Jared Bienz.
- 2005-10-22: Added a "work friendly" version of BS Bingo named
Buzzword Bingo.
- 2005-10-22: Added a style sheet for better rendering on PDAs (Work in
progress)
- 2005-10-22: Added a style sheet for printing just the cards, with out
all of the introduction text or footer content.
- 2005-10-23: Added beta version of
Design Bingo as suggested by "Roxy"
- 2005-10-23: Added credit to the bottom of variations of the game
that were suggested by others.
- 2005-10-26: Added Thank You and
Related Sites pages.
- 2005-10-26: Added
Transaction Legalese Bingo
as suggested by Ulrich Reber.
- 2005-10-26: Added list of available Bingo
games.
- 2005-11-13: Added Getting Things Done
Bingo as suggested by Mathew Cornell.
- 2005-11-13: Added Medical Bingo
as suggested by Robyn Davies
- 2005-11-14: Added Weasel Words to Related Sites Page.
- 2007-11-30: Added Breeder
Bingo as suggested by Judith Harrison
- 2007-11-30: Added Medical
Bingo as suggested by Robyn Davies
- 2007-11-30: Added Cliche
Bingo as suggested by Charlie Ratteree
- 2008-10-01: Added Real Estate
Bingo as suggested by Kristin Steeger
- 2008-10-01: Added Sarah Palin
Bingo
- 2008-10-01: Added Information Technologies
Bingo as suggested by Bona Laszlo
- 2008-10-01: Added Barack Obama
Bingo
- 2008-10-01: Added John Mccain
Bingo
- 2008-10-01: Added Presidential Debate Bingo
- 2008-10-04: Added "work friendly" domain buzzwordbingogame.com,
and started "cleaning up" the site.
- 2008-10-01: Added Halloween Costume Bingo
as suggested by Christine Ledo
- 2008-10-05: Added support for showing multiple cards at once in the
card only
version of the paage.
- 2008-10-05: Added TWO new features to the
site. They are not yet accessible, as I need beta testers to
test them before I hand them off the the general public. Want
to see them first? Email me at the link below!
- 2008-10-10: Released one of the new features:
Build your own custom bingo card.
- 2008-10-21: Added UK Education
Bingo as suggeted by Rob Hall
Have an idea for a new feature? Let me know!