Bingo is a game that has a history that dates back to the 16th century, where its origin is believed to be in Italy, around the year, 1530. Bingo was then played in small county fairs using numbered discs and beans. The game was then referred to as Beano and it was only after migrating to France in the late 1700s that it became a form of entertainment to the wealthy. Beano became popular in parties and County fairs in 1929 and this when the game got its name Bingo when a player yelled bingo by mistake, on getting his winning combination in the card.

Though bingo is still played on cardboard sheets, the latest craze in bingo play today is online bingo. With online bingo, a person can play bingo comfortably from the comfort of their own homes. There is no need of dressing up formally, traveling anywhere or place some time aside to play online bingo as it is possible to play online bingo while doing some other chore like cooking, feeding kids and cleaning. All that is required a computer and an internet connection.

It is possible to play free bingo or wager money with a chance to win when playing online bingo. Its chat rooms enable players to interact with players from across the globe, and thus develop social contacts through online bingo.

Today there are more than thirteen thousands sites on the internet that are devoted solely for online bingo. Most of these sites offer free bingo sessions where it is possible to attract new players to the game of bingo. Then there are the other sites that offer bingo related sites and other online bingo games.

However with the rising number of bingo portals being launched in a day, it proves to be difficult to choose the best online bingo hall from the lot. It basically took only less than six months for the first online bingo sites to appear on the internet, after the start of the internet.

However it was only in the year 2001 that the big revolution in online bingo was introduced with the new and revised security measurements that were then developed. This was because this was when players could safely play bingo using real money. This was mainly made possible with the help of security and billing companies that constructed efficient programs for bingo players to follow for a safe game of bingo.

Today, more than 145 thousand players from around the world enters the thousands of bingo sites offered on the internet where more than half of the them play using real money. This is the reason online bingo is today one of the biggest online industries.

So it can be seen that the game of bingo has come a long way from its Italian beginnings of beans and cardboard cards. Online bingo is today a great means of leisure and relaxation that is accessible to you with only an internet connection and a computer