Guest Paulwhy Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 Have you heard of Moores law? Gordon Moore, the head of Intel (the computer chip company), said many years ago that the number of transistors on a computer chip will double every 18 months. This has held true for many years. This is why a year and a half after you buy a computer, you can buy one twice as good for the same amount of money. I was looking at Mount10bikes statistics (way cool)(http://www.switchbacks.com/geocaching2.html) and noticed something, uh, well, ...amazing. The number of geocaches worldwide has been doubling every 1 to 2 months! Check it out: We reached: - In: 125 Caches - Oct 2000 250 Caches - Dec 2000 500 Caches - Jan 2001 1000 Caches - Mar 2001 2000 Caches - May 2001 4000 Caches - July 2001 8000 Caches - Sept 2001 perhaps? This means we will reach 10,000 next month (October), 100,000 in March or April next Year (2002), and 1,000,000 next Fall (2002)! Hold on to your hats fellow geocachers, this is an E-ticket ride! What can we learn from this? PaulWhy [This message has been edited by Paulwhy (edited 14 September 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest CaptHawke Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 ze="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote: Originally posted by Paulwhy:What can we learn from this? Invest in Garmin & Magellan? And maybe Everyready, Duracell & Rayovac, too. Cephas Hawke Bedford NH [This message has been edited by CaptHawke (edited 14 September 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest JasonW Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 quote:Originally posted by Paulwhy:Hold on to your hats fellow geocachers, this is an E-ticket ride! So long as it's not a dot.bomb ride (in the going belly-up sense, not the exploding sense) Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 You got to have a burn rate (and a staff!) to dot bomb. Jeremy Quote Link to comment
Guest Moun10Bike Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 I don't know if it's due to the tragedy this week, or the fact that summer is winding down and a lot of people are back in school (or both), but the curve is really flattening out this week (you can't see it in the chart on the web site, but I see it in the spreadsheet as I'm updating). We'll need a big weekend to keep the momentum up for this week. Incidentally, today is the 500th day of geocaching (taking May 5, 2000 as day 1). ------------------ Jon (Moun10Bike) 31H/88F N 47° 36.649', W 122° 3.616' www.switchbacks.com/geocaching.html Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted September 14, 2001 Share Posted September 14, 2001 I've noticed a significant (half) reduction in traffic this week. I think many people are still in shock and aren't doing much on the web except refreshing the news sites. I have noticed that we're steadily rising in visits. However, I expect us all to get "back to normal" (whatever that means) in the next couple of weeks. Jeremy Quote Link to comment
Guest Chris Juricich Posted September 15, 2001 Share Posted September 15, 2001 Granted, all will be somewhat back to normal in the next few weeks. No, never mind. Quote Link to comment
Guest jonser Posted September 15, 2001 Share Posted September 15, 2001 interesting facts. im surprised at the people who are in their 20's and 30's that do it. geocache i mean. jonser Quote Link to comment
Guest Choberiba Posted September 16, 2001 Share Posted September 16, 2001 quote:Originally posted by jonser:Interesting facts. Im surprised at the people who are in their 20's and 30's that do it. geocache I mean. jonser Many of us have spent so much time in front of computers, that it's a truly refreshing change-o-pace. I was explaining all this to a non-geocaching woman I know, feelish a little sheepish that so much of my time is spent finding and hiding what are essentualy big plastic Easter eggs. *SHE* defended the hobby stating that one of the biggest problems with hiking is that there isn't a point to it. Geocaching provides the point Quote Link to comment
Guest mav Posted September 16, 2001 Share Posted September 16, 2001 quote:Originally posted by jeremy:I've noticed a significant (half) reduction in traffic this week. I think many people are still in shock and aren't doing much on the web except refreshing the news sites. I have noticed that we're steadily rising in visits. However, I expect us all to get "back to normal" (whatever that means) in the next couple of weeks. Jeremy I agree. I haven't had the heart for caching or dashing this week myself. However we decided today that diversion (especially mindless? lol ) was exactly what we needed. I think we will see more patriotic items in caches, and little changes like tha, but I also think we will need something to do other than pray, mourn and watch CNN. mav "God Bless America, Land That I Love" Quote Link to comment
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