A (very) brief History of Geocaching:
On May 1, 2000, President Bill Clinton's executive order to
discontinue "Selective Availability" allowing users to receive a
non-degraded GPS signal globally was executed.
On May 2, 2000, at approximately midnight, eastern time, the
switch controlling "Selective Availability" was thrown. Twenty-four
satellites around the globe processed their new orders, and
instantly the accuracy of GPS technology improved tenfold. Tens of
thousands of GPS receivers around the world had an instant
upgrade.
On May 3, 2000 Dave Ulmer placed the very first geocache, The
Original Stash, a black bucket, in the woods near Beaver Creek,
Oregon. Along with a logbook and pencil, he left various prize
items including videos, books, software, a can of beans and a
slingshot. He shared the waypoint of his "stash" with the online
community on sci.geo.satellite-nav, and Geocaching was born.
On May 30, 2000 the word Geocaching was coined by Matt Stum on
the "GPS Stash Hunt" mailing list. Geocache was the joining of two
familiar words. The prefix geo, for Earth, was used to describe the
global nature of the activity, but also for its use in familiar
topics in gps such as geography.
On Sept 2, 2000 Jeremy Irish launched the Geocaching.com web
site with 75 caches. Later that same year Jeremy partnered with
Elias Alvord and Bryan Roth, two coworkers at Sunrise Identity and
started a new company called Groundspeak, Inc.
Dec 26, 2006 - First 7 digit geocache id assigned
Mar 8, 2010 - 1,000,000th active geocache listed
Come join us on May 1st 2010 to celebrate the 10th anniversary
of Geocaching.
1:00 pm Event Starts
3:00 pm Pot Luck Tables open
6:00 pm Group photo
7:29 pm Sunset
7:45 pm GPS THE Movie Begins
9:15 pm Fiesta Fireworks!
11:09 pm Moon Rise
Since this is basically an all day event, I propose that we keep
it simple. We'll try to stick to the schedule for those who may
have a baseball game or family event to squeeze in.
This should be a time for good friends to get caught up, sit on
the beach, i.e., --- toes in the water - a** in the sand. Not a
worry in the world ... well you get the idea