Some History For Y'all

[umc]

I found this link on our local site and found it interesting and wanted to share if with everyone here.

 

http://www.guysnamedkim.com/geocache/geocache_history.html

[+Team Og Rof A Klaw]

Whatever happened to Dave Ulmer?

[+JMBella]

That's very cool stuff. Thanks UMC. Just think that was only 3 1/2 years ago.

Soon we will have

thousands of stashes all over the world to go searching for.

 

Do you think Dave had any idea how big this was going to get?

[umc]

Do you think Dave had any idea how big this was going to get?

Heh, personally, I say no, nor do I think Jeremy had any idea either for that matter.

 

I think I will be finding myself asking the same question in the not too distant future.

[+Jamie Z]

I wish we could still view the old old forums. They contained all those old historic posts.

 

Any chance we could still have them online. Elias stated a while back that it wouldn't be a biggy to have them available, but nothing has changed.

 

Jamie

[+Team GPSaxophone]

I've suddenly got this urge to glue a penny onto a rock...

[+Hemlock]

The posts all the way back to December, 2000 are here.

 

At the bottom of the forum page (just above New Topic), you have to change the pulldown list from "the last 30 days" to "the beginning."

[+Jamie Z]

The posts all the way back to December, 2000 are here.

Sure, but many of the older posts got goofed up by the forum change. Also, the inflammatory forum is no longer available. Those were the posts with the most historical information.

 

Jamie

[+TEAM 360]

Do you think Dave had any idea how big this was going to get?

When I had lunch with him on the day I put the Tribute Plaque in place, he said he had NO IDEA that it was going to take off like it did, in fact, he was outright shocked at the explosive growth. He also said he liked the fact that the sport of geocaching will go on, even outliving him and continuing to grow. He is a very nice guy to meet, with interesting ideas. He really is an original. Dave, wherever you are, hope you read this and are doing well.

[Jeremy]

Sure, but many of the older posts got goofed up by the forum change. Also, the inflammatory forum is no longer available. Those were the posts with the most historical information.

What is the "inflammatory forum" ?

 

All the posts should be in here.

[Jeremy]

I just read the old topic you referenced. We should have it zipped up around somewhere.

[Jeremy]

Umm... No. I believe the inflammatory forum was the post where, well, Jamie Z knows.

[+TEAM 360]

Ya gotta admit, even YOU laughed at that one...

[+Jamie Z]

Umm... No. I believe the inflammatory forum was the post where, well, Jamie Z knows.

I guess it'll just have to stay that way. Oh well. I am remembering the name right though, right?

 

Jamie

[+Webfoot]

Anyone know if that first California cache is still there?

[+Jamie Z]

So's you all know I wasn't making this up:

 

From this page:

 

 

Except the dropdown link from archive.org doesn't bring me anywhere.

 

Jamie

[Jomarac5]

That's cool.

 

It would be better than an off-topic forum.

 

*****

Geo 116

[+Webfoot]

That's cool.

 

It would be better than an off-topic forum.

 

*****

Geo 116

And probably just as humorous too.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

That's cool.

 

It would be better than an off-topic forum.

 

*****

Geo 116

For only the second time in recorded forum history, let it show that I agree with J5!

[+Webfoot]

That's cool.

 

It would be better than an off-topic forum. 

 

*****

Geo 116

For only the second time in recorded forum history, let it show that I agree with J5!

What was the first?

[+Renegade Knight]

It sure didn't take long for the talk about geo-litter to crop up.

 

Some day lost geocaches will be all that's left of our civilization to prove we were here. I can just see archaeologists puzzeling over McToys.

 

That was an exellent insight into the beginnings of our RASH.

Edited December 11, 2003 by Renegade Knight

[Jomarac5]

That's cool.

 

It would be better than an off-topic forum. 

 

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Geo 116

For only the second time in recorded forum history, let it show that I agree with J5!

What was the first?

Actually, I think we agree on much more than either of us would like to admit.

 

*****

Geo 98C

[Jeremy]

I guess it'll just have to stay that way. Oh well. I am remembering the name right though, right?

 

Jamie

Yeah. The context was lost in my quote. Team 360 had a post that was removed with a picture of Preparation H. As I wrote in the other post, I'll see if we have a backup copy of the original forums. However, some items are better not dug up, IMO. I always wondered where that post went.

[+robert]

I still have the pic with the Prep-H if you want it, Jeremy.

[+briansnat]

Whatever happened to Dave Ulmer?

 

Dave actually posted here a few months ago after a loooooong period of silence. I think it was the real guy, because his profile says he joined in 2000.

[+Team Og Rof A Klaw]

Interesting. Kind of reminds me of a computer show I went to in Atlantic City in 1977. Some guy named Gates was trying to hawk a buggy Basic interpreter for Altairs, and two other characters named Jobs and Wozniak were marketing an SBC called the Apple 1. All of which was just background noise at the time.

 

So how did Groundspeak rise from obscurity to world domination, Daddy?

[+Keith Watson]

Here is another history of geocaching. A lightly different angle on the subject. Very INeresting reading. http://geocaching.gpsgames.org/history/

[+Gorak]

Here is another history of geocaching. A lightly different angle on the subject. Very INeresting reading. http://geocaching.gpsgames.org/history/

Excellent read. Very enlightening. Thanks for posting that.

 

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Gorak

Geo 6 16A 36

[+Team GPSaxophone]

Actually, I think we agree on much more than either of us would like to admit.

You stay out of my forum, and I'll stay out of yours

 

I still have the pic with the Prep-H if you want it, Jeremy.

Hopefully not the 'how to apply' picture

[davwil]

Anyone remember the S-100 bus (Altair did use it)?

 

Geocaching growth is tied to the growth of the micro-computer industry as the exploration of the New World is tied to the improvement of the compass and chronometer.

 

The more good compasses and accurate timepieces we have, the farther we can go, and still know where we are.

 

It's a very ancient aspect of humankind. In my genes is encoded the "searcher gene". I don't necessarily know where I'm going, but I know I want to get there. Therefore I SEARCH.

 

Computers help us... timepieces help us... MAPS help us.

 

Which brings me back to the original thing I was talking about... we have a GPSr... it's got a great timepiece and sometimes a compass. We need to know WHERE WE ARE.

 

Now that we have "found" most of the BIG areas on the Earth we have to start looking for the SMALL areas.

 

I Hope this makes sense.

Dave

[vagabond]

Anyone know if that first California cache is still there?

The LAX cache is gone, as is the 2nd oldest cache, Phil's memorial, Phils was pulled late last year due to fire hazard

[+Gorak]

Anyone remember the S-100 bus (Altair did use it)?

Remember it? My first computer was a home-brew S-100 bus Z80 system that ran CP/M. It had a whopping 48K of RAM. I can still remember wire-wrapping the CPU and video cards, and typing in all the bootstrap code into the PROM burner.

 

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Gorak

Geo 99H

[+rusty_tlc]

Anyone remember the S-100 bus (Altair did use it)?

Remember it? My first computer was a home-brew S-100 bus Z80 system that ran CP/M. It had a whopping 48K of RAM. I can still remember wire-wrapping the CPU and video cards, and typing in all the bootstrap code into the PROM burner.

 

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Gorak

Geo 99H

Whoa! And I thought knowing Fortran and NOS made me a dinosaur. Remember the "portable" CPM machines with the 4" CRT?

[+DenaliNW]

Dave actually posted here a few months ago after a loooooong period of silence

 

He did indeed - particularly in this thread regarding the tribute plaque at the original site. Somewhere near the fourth page of the thread, he mentions needing help with posting some video he made when he put the first cache together. That conversation is carried on through the remainder of the above thread, and this thread on the Portland Forum (Portland - like Mecca only different!).

 

He seems like a great guy in and through the correspondece we had over the video he made.

 

Anyway, if you want to see that video, along with video of the plaque dedication, you can do that here.

[davwil]

Now CP/M... There was an operating system...! They lost the battle to Bill what's-his-name. I STILL revert to the C prompt when I want to get some real work done! It is comforting to see some of the geocaching software that still offers a *command line interface* and I still take pride in remembering how it works.

 

As the early days of Geocachig involved alot of leg work, so did computers. Don't make me talk about UNIX or VAX-speak or that language that used terms like ROT DROP ROLL...

 

I'm thinking Dave Ulmer is one of those people that would use the most appropriate tool at hand to get the job done... after all, he came up with the idea and we should appreciate what he did.

 

Oh, by the way.... I'm a Dave too.

 

(Hee hee...

These are the Daves I know

I Know

These are the Daves I Know)

 

Dave W.

[+robert]

I still have the pic with the Prep-H if you want it, Jeremy.

Hopefully not the 'how to apply' picture

Available in speed loads.

[+Gorak]

Remember the "portable" CPM machines with the 4" CRT?

You mean the Osborne? Revolutionary machine! Spent a lot of time digging around the innards of those puppies.

 

[+Keith Watson]

You can purchase one if you like. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?q...10&BasicSearch=

[+ironman114]

Whatever happened to Dave Ulmer?

Two weeks ago Dave was caching and riding his dirt bike in Arizona.

BTW he has only posted 8 times since oct.2000