How Did Geocaching Begin?

[+2SPs]

My wife and I have been loving this activity for the last 3 months. It doesn't seem like it could have been around for too long because the accessability of GPS and the internet have only been around for the last decade or so.

 

Where did this whole addiction begin and how did it spread?

[+robert]

Here is a short overview that should answer your question.

 

[+dino_hunters]

here is a link to the very first posting of a geocache. No fancy websites back then!

 

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.sat...xy=2000&rnum=10

 

a day Earlier, Dave Ulmer (first geocache placre) posted this

 

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.sat...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[+WhatsRNutts]

here is a link to the very first posting of a geocache. No fancy websites back then!

 

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.sat...xy=2000&rnum=10

 

a day Earlier, Dave Ulmer (first geocache placre) posted this

 

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.sat...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

that would be fun to go hunt....do you know if it is still there?

[+Thot]

here is a link to the very first posting of a geocache.  No fancy websites back then!

 

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.sat...xy=2000&rnum=10

 

a day Earlier, Dave Ulmer (first geocache placre) posted this

 

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.geo.sat...=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

that would be fun to go hunt....do you know if it is still there?

I read somewhere that the cache is gone but there's plaque there to commemorate it.

[+WhatsRNutts]

thats so cool!

[+Thrak]

Yes. There is a plaque in the ground at the site of the first geocache.

[+Langner91]

Here's the site where it all began.

[+Faith the Aquariaqueen]

Wouldn't that make a cool virtual??????

Or is it already?

 

.....sorry, just read the cache description.

Edited August 15, 2005 by Faith the Aquariaqueen

[+WhatsRNutts]

wow, a lot of people have logged it...

[+2SPs]

Thanks to all for answering. It's even more unbelievable, but I love it! We found our 81st tonight and it's really amazing that in just 5 years, it has spread from a bucket in Oregon to the town of Nicholasville, KY having 15-20 stashes.

[+Langner91]

I think the funniest part is that from the accounts above, the first cache was "burried".

 

My how things have changed.

 

[+IVxIV]

I think the funniest part is that from the accounts above, the first cache was "burried".

 

My how things have changed.

 

lol yeah

 

The first cache was "buried"

 

contained "food"

 

and a "weapon" (slingsot)

[+BilboB]

I was one of the lucky ones to find the first trade item O.C.B. or the Original Can of Beans.

[+TeamAO]

When Clinton didn't renew a bill that scrambled GPS signals, users could have better accuracy with their GPS units. Someone in the northwest hid a cache in the woods and posted the coordinates online. People found it, the rest it history.

[+Bear Paughs]

I was one of the lucky ones to find the first trade item O.C.B. or the Original Can of Beans.

That's really cool! I'd read about a can of beans being in the original stash (which I thought was very amusing), but I had no idea the original was still out there.