A Brief History of Geocaching Traditional Cache

A Brief History of Geocaching

1. BGC (Before Geocaching) - 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.
2. May 1, 2000 - President Clinton announces that Selective Availability (SA) will be turned off.
3. May 2, 2000 @ 12:00 AM - Selective Availability is turned off and civilians are able to enjoy accuracy on the order of 10 meters.
4. May 2, 2000 - Dave Ulmer makes the first Usenet post "The Great Stash Game !!" about what will become Geocaching.
5. May 3, 2000 - Dave Ulmer elaborates on his idea "The Great American GPS Stash Hunt !".
6. May 3, 2000 - Dave Ulmer places the very first GPS Stash (Geocache) in the woods near Beaver Creek, Oregon and posts the coords online "GPS Stash Hunt... Stash #1 is there!". Along with a logbook and pencil, he left a Delorme Topo USA, 2 CD Roms, a cassette recorder, a "George of the Jungle" VHS tape, a Ross Perot book, 4 $1 bills, a slingshot handle and a pretty notorious can of beans (actually a can of black-eyed peas), now the O.C.B. trackable. The cache is later listed on geocaching.com as GCF- The Original Stash. It is no longer there, but in it's place is GCGV0P - Original Stash Tribute Plaque.
7. May 4, 2000 - The first GPS Stash is found for the first time "Great GPS Stash Hunt - Stash #1 was Found!!".
8. May 8, 2000 - Mike Teague creates and posts the first GPS Stash Hunt web site (the precursor to Geocaching.com). The web site no longer exists. The link shows what the site looked like on June 21, 2000.
9. May 26, 2000 - In GPS Stash e-mail group message #8, Dave Ulmer is already thinking about the future of this new game and questions if the name "GPS Stash Hunt" is the best name for this activity and wonders if there is a better name . . .
10. May 30,2000 - Matt Stum (in e-mail group Msg #62) coins a new term - Geocache - and offers it in place of the term Geostash. This looks to be the first use of the term Geocache.
11. May 30, 2000 - Soon afterward, Dave Ulmer says he likes the new term (Msg #63).
12. May 31, 2000 - In Msg #75 Dave Ulmer makes the name change "official".
13. June 1, 2000 - "Geocache, a new word for your dictionary !" Geocaching is born!
14. September 2, 2000 - The first mention of a new web site, Geocaching.com, is mentioned in the e-mail group by Jeremy Irish (Msg #395).
15. September 6, 2000 - "Re: [gpsstash] You should get a mirror site..." Possibly the first mention of Geocaching.com as the "New" site. Then here on September 8, 2000.

FYI:

• Here is a link to a Bookmark List that contains the First 100 caches - First 100 caches
• August 30, 2001 - The first Travel Bug® is released by Jeremy. TB1 is a rubber ducky named "Deadly Duck: Envy."
• September 30, 2001 - The first Geocoin is released by Moun10Bike. It is actually his second Geocoin, he kept his first Geocoin for his own collection.
• February 2003 - Groundspeak announces a moratorium on the creation of any new locationless caches.
• November 2005 - Groundspeak announces that no new virtual or webcam cache submissions will be accepted.
• January 2006 - Existing locationless caches are archived and locked to further logging.
• May 26, 2006 - Co-Founder Bryan announces the new Mega-Event Cache type (first two Mega-Events are GeoWoodstock 4 and the 2006 Midwest GeoBash).
• December 31, 2007 - Geocaching.com reaches 500,000 active geocache listings.
• February 21, 2008 - Co-Founder Jeremy announces the new Wherigo Cache type.
• March 8, 2010 - Geocaching.com reaches 1 million active geocache listings.
• August 20, 2011 - First International Geocaching Day (the third Saturday of August).
• February 28, 2013 - Geocaching.com reaches 2 million active geocache listings with GC46N4E - Overwatch #1.
• April 22, 2014 - Groundspeak announces the new Giga-Event Cache type (first one being Project MUNICH2014 - Mia san Giga!.
• July 8, 2017 - ormustr (the CO of this cache) finds his first cache

Now for the cache:

This is a Gadget Cache.  If you not have not found a gadget cache before, or do not know what they are, they are easy to find, but then there is a puzzle or something that you have to figure out in order to get to the log sheet.  Please be gentle with the cache, a lot of work went into its build and to get to the log sheet is simple (once you know the solution) and nothing will need to be forced or taken apart to get to the log.  There is provided TOTT in the drawer, please return these, they are NOT swag or for you to take.  The log sheet is not in the TOTT drawer but in the door marked as LOG.

Once to the bench take the short trail up to the cache.

Once you have signed the log, please replace everything as found and ensure that the log door is firmly closed.  Mahalo and have a good day.