Bronze Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 Can someone please tell me a little more on the history of Geocaching in Australia and in the States where I presume it has originated. The local radio has shown some interest in knowing more about to subject and I have offered to follow up some of their questions. The Bronze. stevesallychandler@yahoo.com Bronze. ICQ me 153415991 Stevesallychandler@yahoo.com Quote Link to comment
+Ian&Sue - Team Pathfinder Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 When the GPS signal degradation called Select Availabilty (SA) was removed by the Clinton Administration May 1st, 2000 (statement), it opened up the possibility of games like this one. On May 3rd, a container of goodies was hidden by a someone outside of Portland, Oregon - in celebration of the removing of Selective Availability. By May 6th the cache was visited twice, and logged in the logbook once. Mike Teague was the first to find the container, and built the first web site to document these containers and their locations that were posted to the sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup. In July of 2000, Jeremy Irish found Mike Teague's web site and found his first cache outside of Seattle, Washington. Recognizing the potential of the game (but never expected the growth), Jeremy approached Mike Teague with a new site design, used the name Geocaching, and developed a new web site adding virtual logs, maps, and a way to make it easier to maintain caches as the sport grows. The site was alive for a while, but the official torch was passed to Jeremy on September 6. Since the launch of the web site, the Geocaching sport has grown to caches in all 50 states and over 30 countries. There are now many variations of the game, including virtual caches, offset caches, puzzle caches, multi-stage caches. New ideas and new great games crop up every day. From it's inception, Geocaching.com has been developed and maintained by Jeremy, with the assistance of Geocachers around the world. Many thanks to the Geocaching community for making the game it is today. The official web site for Geocaching is Geocaching.com. Who knows where it'll go next! There is a lot of information on this page - http://www.geocaching.com/faq.asp Sue & Ian Team : Pathfinder - Western Australia Quote Link to comment
Syn Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=5900973244 Quote Link to comment
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