+Simply Paul Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 According to the front page, "There are 999,675 active geocaches around the world." - Obviously this goes up and down -more up than down- as caches are approved and archived but I wonder if 1,000,000's ever been hit before, and if not, which will be the 'official' 1,000,000th cache. Only 325 to go.... Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 (edited) According to the front page, "There are 999,675 active geocaches around the world." - Obviously this goes up and down -more up than down- as caches are approved and archived but I wonder if 1,000,000's ever been hit before, and if not, which will be the 'official' 1,000,000th cache. Only 325 to go.... 1,000,000 has been hit before, in that the one millionth GC code was created about a year ago and the one millionth published cache followed not too long afterwards. There has never previously been a "number of currently active caches" in excess of 1,000,000. And given that that number is only updated once or twice every 24 hours, once we go over it, you'd need a remarkable world-wide conspiracy of reviewers, cachers, or both, to archive enough caches to get it below the magic million. True geeks won't celebrate until the number hits 1,048,576, of course. Edited March 7, 2010 by sTeamTraen Quote Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 True geeks won't celebrate until the number hits 1,048,576, of course. And I was going to celebrate 1048575 Quote Link to comment
+The Duckers Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 It now says... 1,001,001 active Quote Link to comment
+goldpot Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 It now says... 1,001,001 active ...now 1,001,890 active geocaches! Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 It now says... 1,001,001 active ...now 1,001,890 active geocaches! Any bets on when 2,000,000 is announced? Quote Link to comment
+goldpot Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 It now says... 1,001,001 active ...now 1,001,890 active geocaches! Any bets on when 2,000,000 is announced? Half the time it took to get to 1 million! So, in 5 years time. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 (edited) I'd say less than that. It should be 2013 by my reckoning. There's this page which has the 'story'. Thanks to twitter.com/geocachingoxon for the link. Edited March 9, 2010 by Simply Paul Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 I'd say less than that. It should be 2013 by my reckoning. There's this page which has the 'story'. Thanks to twitter.com/geocachingoxon for the link. Interesting article. Was going to say more like 4 years to 2,000,000. But after reading... Imagine if 1/3 of the cachers were to go out and hide 1 cache during the next month. Quote Link to comment
+NCad Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 The One Millionth active geocache has been identified. It is GC24QG8 and is located in Vista, California. The identification determination was really quite sophisticated. Quote Link to comment
+Amberel Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 The One Millionth active geocache has been identified. It is GC24QG8 and is located in Vista, California. The identification determination was really quite sophisticated.I don't know how they claimed to have done it, but unless it was Groundspeak themselves working through their database transaction logs, it sounds to me an impossible thing to do because it depends on the relative timings of events such as reviewer publication logs, archivals and even unarchivals. You could even have more than one "millionth active cache", if a cache was archived after the figure was reached the first time . Rgds, Andy Quote Link to comment
Neath Worthies Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Looking at the cache description it seems to have been written in the full knowledge that it would be the "magic" cache. How is that possible before the event? Also the Hidden date is a bit odd. Strange. But then again, at least its not a micro Quote Link to comment
+dino-irl Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 It's impossible to determine the 1 millionth cache and I have a feeling that cache page is written tongue in cheek Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 "And the One Millionth cache is..." Not mine so I don't really care. And neither does everyone else. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 Someone, somewhere must care. A little bit. Not me though. I'm rather too cool to be that geeky... Quote Link to comment
Deceangi Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Someone, somewhere must care. A little bit. Not me though. I'm rather too cool to be that geeky... There is a simple answer to resolving it everyone who had a cache published on the day we crossed the 1,000 000 Active cache threshold. Has the right to say "Well my cache might have been the I millionth Active cache, listed on Geocaching.com" So all of you stand up and take a bow Deci Quote Link to comment
+Bear and Ragged Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Someone, somewhere must care. A little bit. Not me though. I'm rather too cool to be that geeky... There is a simple answer to resolving it everyone who had a cache published on the day we crossed the 1,000 000 Active cache threshold. Has the right to say "Well my cache might have been the I millionth Active cache, listed on Geocaching.com" So all of you stand up and take a bow Deci And all the reviewers who published a cache on the on the MAY have published the 1,000,000 cache, and can say "I may have been the reviewer to publish that cache!" Stand up, and take a bow! Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 As the 1,000,000th cache was literally just about to be published...................... I archived 3 of mine! Quote Link to comment
+ChaceGuild Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 And according to the Groundspeak e-Newsletter I got earlier, the 1 millionth *active* cache was published sometime on the 8th March So anyone that got a cache published on 8th March can say "Mine may be the millionth active" Quote Link to comment
Deceangi Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 me runs off to check the records to see if I Published any caches, on that day Deci Quote Link to comment
+Wavvy Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 I had 2 caches published on the 8th. Can I claim the 1,000,000th cache? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 I had 2 caches published on the 8th. Can I claim the 1,000,000th cache? Yeh, go on then. If anyone complains tell 'em I said it was OK Quote Link to comment
+ChaceGuild Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 I had 2 caches published on the 8th. Can I claim the 1,000,000th cache? You may most certainly claim that... it may be afterall Quote Link to comment
+caravanpotts Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 me runs off to check the records to see if I Published any caches, on that day Deci You published ours on that day - so can we claim the Millionth together????!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+caravanpotts Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 GC24PRY I am claiming that I may be the Millionth - this was our first cache too - so doubly special Quote Link to comment
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