+sept1c_tank Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Here is a 90 second video of Dave Ulmer, “The Father of Geocaching,” describing the contents of the very first geocache, and explaining his intent for the game. It is published in Today's Cacher and will be archived there for your future enjoyment. Note that the file may take several minutes to download to your media player; it is definitely worth the wait. Here is a May article from Today’s Cacher about Dave Ulmer. The history of geocaching is good reading, too. The original Usernet posts and emails that put life into geocaching are here. :o Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hmmm...he has a can of food, and he says that he is gonna bury the cache! That video is pretty cool! Quote Link to comment
+fly46 Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 "There'll be thousands of these, it should be pretty good stuff" I think he was a little more accurate than the first president of IBM who said that there'd be "a world market for maybe five computers" Five per house maybe, but certainly not just five! That's a cool video! So many things don't have their origins, let alone a video of it. Too bad we don't have video of the cache placement, too! Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Holy crap that is so freakin cool! I love when he says 1,000s all over the country. I guess he never thought it would be 112479 all over the world. Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted August 3, 2004 Author Share Posted August 3, 2004 Too bad we don't have video of the cache placement, too! "Workin' on it." Quote Link to comment
GeoWorms Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hmmm...he has a can of food, and he says that he is gonna bury the cache! I heard that too! Fudgin' newbies! Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Too bad we don't have video of the cache placement, too! "Workin' on it." Really!? Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hmmm...he has a can of food, and he says that he is gonna bury the cache! I heard that too! Fudgin' newbies! Man, he should have been banned for that! It's like watching the first moon landing! Way cool, tank! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hmmm...he has a can of food, and he says that he is gonna bury the cache! That video is pretty cool! And he also placed it on private property without permission. Archive it!!. Also, the second cache (I think it was Mike Teague's) had a 6 pack of beer in it. Quote Link to comment
+Divine Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Also, the second cache (I think it was Mike Teague's) had a 6 pack of beer in it. Ahh, those were the days. Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Blackeyed peas! I always heard it was beans. I guess blackeyed peas are beans. There's an old Southern superstition that eating blackeyed peas on New Year's Day is lucky. My grandfather believed it so strongly, he had them bring him blackeyed peas on his deathbed. Then he died. Lucky, huh? My mother used to mail me a can every year. I finally realized...wait, I can't stand these things. I've still got the last can she sent me. Maybe I should go bury it somewhere. But I digress. The Ross Perot book was pretty funny, too. Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 How dare you watch a video of a Cache planter who did not find 10 caches before he placed one. And where is the 528 ft. piece of string so he can see if any other caches are within his area. Quote Link to comment
lowracer Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 (edited) Is this legit? Or a clever re-enactment? This can't be real. Is it? Who can authenticate this? Very cool either way. -mark. Edited August 3, 2004 by lowracer Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Is this legit? Or a clever re-enactment? This can't be real. Is it? Who can authenticate this? SA was turned off in May. Check the date on the stash note and you will have your answer. Quote Link to comment
lowracer Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 And there's no way anyone could ever fake a date with pen on a tablet? Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Is this legit? Or a clever re-enactment? This can't be real. Is it? Who can authenticate this? Very cool either way. -mark. Having spoken to Dave by phone when I did the original interview with him for the mag back in May, I can say that it sounds like him. At that time he gave me a list of everything in the cache, including the slingshot that you see in the video. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+Team Perks Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 SA was turned off in May. Check the date on the stash note and you will have your answer. If he had placed the cache on the date scribbled on the note pad, that would certainly have added to the challenge. Quote Link to comment
+Team Flying Dachshund Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 I know everybody is asking "what happened to the beans"? Well the O.C.B are still with us. Infact they are doing some PR in Texas at this event cache. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 SA was turned off in May. Check the date on the stash note and you will have your answer. If he had placed the cache on the date scribbled on the note pad, that would certainly have added to the challenge. Which is another thing that makes it authenic. When I talked to Dave he had mentioned that he had misdated the original log book. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+donbadabon Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hmm. The article on todays cacher says The first logbook was damaged and Dave didn't keep it. At the time, he had no idea of its importance as a historical document. But yet he keeps an old video tape of the first hide? That seems conflicting to me. Quote Link to comment
+trippy1976 Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Didn't take long for the doubting thomases to crop up, eh? Haven't watched it yet, but I'm sure it's very cool. And authentic. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Blackeyed peas! I always heard it was beans. I guess blackeyed peas are beans... It amazes me how many threads there have been regarding those beans. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Hmm. The article on todays cacher says The first logbook was damaged and Dave didn't keep it. At the time, he had no idea of its importance as a historical document. But yet he keeps an old video tape of the first hide? That seems conflicting to me. The tape wasn't damaged. The log book was totaly trashed from being wet. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+Team Flying Dachshund Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 too bad about the original log book being destroyed ):. Quote Link to comment
dampeoples Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Wow, I wonder what sort of bandwidth hit the site is going to take Quote Link to comment
+donbadabon Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 The log book was totaly trashed from being wet. Ahh. I see. The story was misleading then. There is a BIG difference between 'damaged' and 'totally trashed'. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 The log book was totaly trashed from being wet. Ahh. I see. The story was misleading then. There is a BIG difference between 'damaged' and 'totally trashed'. Thank you! El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted August 5, 2004 Author Share Posted August 5, 2004 For those of you who are skeptical about the video, here is a GC.com cache note (written in Dave’s own words) referring to it; it can also be found @ pdxgeocaching.com. Quote Link to comment
+donbadabon Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 (edited) Nice work, sept1c_tank. Finally a post that actually shows Dave associated with the video. That is proof enough for me. Now I can enjoy the video. Edited August 5, 2004 by donbadabon Quote Link to comment
+david g Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 (edited) Cool. Edited August 5, 2004 by david g Quote Link to comment
+Nurse Dave Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Didn't take long for the doubting thomases to crop up, eh? Haven't watched it yet, but I'm sure it's very cool. And authentic. They are all named Tom??? Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Didn't take long for the doubting thomases to crop up, eh? Haven't watched it yet, but I'm sure it's very cool. And authentic. They are all named Tom??? Nope..there was one named Greg. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+Hydnckr Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 I've seen that rusty old can of beans. Team 360 brought it to an Event Cache at Cabela's in Dundee, Michigan last December. I took a picture of it too not knowing at the time what significance it had, just knowing that since he had taken such care with it that it meant something to our hobby. It was suspended by a magnet inside a clear acrylic box, rusty as all get out, with holes, (needed the magnet on top of the container to keep it from collapsing on itself) but just like anything else, it doesn't have to be pristine to be part of history. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Did anyone notice the model of GPSr that Dave hid the first cache with? Yep! A Megellan GPS 2000. I still have one as a back-up unit. I found my first 190, or so, caches with it too. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 I love a cache that breaks all the rules and yet does it right. I'm impressed he took the time to videotape the event. Quote Link to comment
+Boot Group Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 Very cool. I wish I could find a place to hide such a big container. Quote Link to comment
+CacheCreatures Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 That was awesome! Thanks for posting that. Wouldn't it be nice if all caching had such quality items. : ) Quote Link to comment
+Ed & Julie Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 What blows my mind is the guy that invented geocaching (or stashing) has only 13 finds and a handful of all archived hides (under that profile, at least). And people are stressing about having to get 500, 750, or 1000+ hides... Ed The video is VERY cool, BTW!! Quote Link to comment
+SixTen Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 Yeah...it is very cool!...actually, my theory is that Dave Ulmer IS Ross Perot...kinda sounds like him...and there is the book... Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted August 8, 2004 Author Share Posted August 8, 2004 (edited) Hmmm...the thought hadn't occured to me, but you may be on to something there, SixTen. Edit: I wonder if Ross Perot likes beans? Edited August 8, 2004 by sept1c_tank Quote Link to comment
+Robespierre Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 I downloaded it a few days ago, and I was glad to have it. Then I got bummed-out when I discovered people arguing over its authenticity. Is it OK to enjoy it NOW? Quote Link to comment
Jake - Team A.I. Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 That was really cool. Btw, I watched the video at almost 5AM MST. The download was fast. The video was slower than the download speed so I was able to watch without a single glitch. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 What blows my mind is the guy that invented geocaching (or stashing) has only 13 finds and a handful of all archived hides (under that profile, at least). And people are stressing about having to get 500, 750, or 1000+ hides... Ed The video is VERY cool, BTW!! Dave has a lot more than that, he just dosen't log on line. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+Kealia Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 Feel like I just took part in some sort of history lesson; that was (insert witty adjective here). Hey, we need a new icon on our stats page to show that we watched this! Quote Link to comment
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