TO LOCATE THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF GEOCACHING CACHE, YOU MUST FIRST VISIT "SIGNAL'S SECRET CACHE" GC25G7Y, AS SIGNAL HOLDS THE SECRET COORDINATES TO LOCATE THE 10TH ANNIVERSAY CACHE!
NOTE FINAL COORDS: N 40° 45.324 W 074° 26.307
The first cache plaque ~ Oregon.
The History of Geocaching fun facts:
2000 - President Clinton announced that this scrambling, known as Selective Availability (SA), would be turned off. Civilians were then able to enjoy accuracy on the order of 10 meters. GPS, or Global Positioning System, was developed by the US Department of Defense. This satellite navigation system was intended for military use and therefore the signals were scrambled, limiting accuracy for civilian use to about 100 meters.
On May 3, 2000, Dave Ulmer proposed a way to celebrate the demise of SA. He hid a bucket of trinkets in the woods outside Portland, Oregon and announced its location in a posting made to the USENET newsgroup sci.geo.satellite-nav. This announcement is remarkable for laying out the essence of the hobby that is still in place today. It's all there. The container. The trinkets. The log book. The rule of take something, leave something, sign the logbook. Dave Ulmer invented geocaching in one fell swoop in that newsgroup posting. Within a day, the original stash had been found. Within days, more stashes had been hidden in California, Kansas, and Illinois. Within a month, a stash had been hidden as far away as Australia. The hobby was fast on its way to being a worldwide phenomenon.
On May 8, 2000 Mike Teague announced a Web site for collecting the locations of caches. The original Web page is gone, but thanks to the Wayback Machine, a copy of the GPS Stash Hunt Homepage still exists.
On May 15, 2000 James Coburn set up a mailing list on eGroups (now Yahoo!) for discussion of geocaching. The list is still in existence. Its archives contain the best record of the early days of the hobby.
On May 30, 2000 a new name was coined for the hobby. Matt Stum suggested "geocaching" to avoid the negative connotations of the word "stash".
So, within a month, the hobby had in place the rules, its first hides and finds, a mailing list and a home page. And the number of caches was growing fast.
On September 2, 2000, Jeremy Irish emailed the gpsstash mailing list that he had registered the domain name geocaching.com and had setup his own Web site. He copied the caches from Mike Teague's database into his own.
On September 6, 2000 Mike Teague announced that Jeremy Irish was taking over cache listings, Jeremy Irish considered ways to make money from geocaching. Geocaching.com was setup as a .com site, not .org.
THERE IS A GEOCACHING T-SHIRT FOR THE FTF PRISE!
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