+GeoVamp Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I was wondering what the oldest cache in the Geocaching books is-thats still up and running. Quote Link to comment
+WeightMan Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I was wondering what the oldest cache in the Geocaching books is-thats still up and running. Perhaps this will help. Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I was wondering what the oldest cache in the Geocaching books is-thats still up and running. Perhaps this will help. What Weightman said - his link takes you to the First 100 Caches. The oldest left is Mingo in Kansas. I just noticed, it was placed on my birthday! Now I really gotta go get it.... Quote Link to comment
+Team Shydog Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I just noticed, it was placed on my birthday! You type very well for a 7 year old Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I just noticed, it was placed on my birthday! You type very well for a 7 year old Thank you. Long time, no chat! Be glad you're not visiting us right now. Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I was wondering what the oldest cache in the Geocaching books is-thats still up and running. Perhaps this will help. What Weightman said - his link takes you to the First 100 Caches. The oldest left is Mingo in Kansas. I just noticed, it was placed on my birthday! Now I really gotta go get it.... Been there, done that! Quote Link to comment
+9Key Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Its too bad the original descriptions and data from the Dave Ulmer caches are gone. It would have been interesting to see what the writes ups were. What happened between those two anyway? (honestly I don't know) Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Dave "erased" them (changed text and lat/lon) and deleted all logs. He didn't like what GC.com was doing and took his toys and went home, I guess. Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Yep we have a big event on March 15 near Mingo and we are going to set a benchmark there as well. Watch the news and stories. Ever heard of NAD 27? Meades Ranch. Quote Link to comment
+baloo&bd Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 These may help; This will show you the oldest active caches, by state, in the US. This will show the first cache placed in each state in the US. Quote Link to comment
+NeverWalkAlone Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Perhaps this will help. This list is not correct/up to date ... the danish cache "Kippers in the jungle" GC6A is active and not archived. Note that list-edit-date was May 2005!!! NWA Quote Link to comment
+uminski Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 These may help; This will show you the oldest active caches, by state, in the US. This will show the first cache placed in each state in the US. Thanks for listing the caches in each state. It was fun to read about the very first cache place in 2000. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Its too bad the original descriptions and data from the Dave Ulmer caches are gone. It would have been interesting to see what the writes ups were. What happened between those two anyway? (honestly I don't know) Ulmer's caches pre-date the existance of geocaching.com, and if someone was really motivated, they could find the usenet posts announcing them to the world on Google. I'm not that motivated right now, but I did find this website on archive.org, which is a snapshot of the HTML 101 type geocaching website by Mike Teague that was the predecessor of geocaching.com Unfortunately, there are none of Ulmer's cache descriptions there, except for some sort of "vector offset cache", which I'm sure was never listed on geocaching.com Quote Link to comment
+The Jester Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Its too bad the original descriptions and data from the Dave Ulmer caches are gone. It would have been interesting to see what the writes ups were. What happened between those two anyway? (honestly I don't know) Ulmer's caches pre-date the existance of geocaching.com, and if someone was really motivated, they could find the usenet posts announcing them to the world on Google. I'm not that motivated right now, but I did find this website on archive.org, which is a snapshot of the HTML 101 type geocaching website by Mike Teague that was the predecessor of geocaching.com Unfortunately, there are none of Ulmer's cache descriptions there, except for some sort of "vector offset cache", which I'm sure was never listed on geocaching.com Most of the first caches were listed here but not by date. They were entered by state. You can see what Dave did to his here. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 (edited) You know I couldn't walk away from this. I spent way too much time looking for snapshots of Ulmer's caches in the past, but no dice. But this is the earliest snapshot of a geocaching.com webpage I could find, from November 2000, a cache in NYC. Apparently before find counts. Some will find it interesting, at least I would think: NYC Alpha Cache A fair amount of the links actually work, especially "nearby caches", but it takes you to a newer snapshot of the website for that search. Edited February 10, 2008 by TheWhiteUrkel Quote Link to comment
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