The Beginning Of Geocaching.com
The birth of Geocaching.com, a subject I never imagined I'd be googling until recently when asked by my son who created the website for Geocaching.com and I had no answer to give him. The mom side of me does not like leaving questions unanswered for their little curious minds. After reading posts and gathering the information for his answer. I realized there was so much interesting information associated with Geocaching.com that I wanted to share with all other Geocachers.
Did you know that when Geocaching first started it was reserved only for expert GPS users who understood the GPS lingo and all of how it worked? People like me who only understand the basics of the GPS would not have been able to play as easily as I can today. Most people who played already used the technology for backpacking or boating, it was much easier for them to pick up this hobby when it was first launched. Due to the expert players and the new players wanting to play there was a huge learning curve in order for the newer players to keep up and enjoy the game. There weren't many tools to use to detect if there was a cache nearby; therefore making the game the most challenging it's ever been.
As most people playing the game, Jeremy Irish, a web developer for a Seattle company wanted to play the game also and see what it all was about. He fell upon Mike Teague's website in July while doing some research on the GPS. We talk about Mike Teague's in my previous blog post. The entire idea of treasure hunting while using tech gadgets really spiked Jeremy's curiosity. To him, it represented the marriage of two of his biggest interest.
He soon discovered that there was a Geocache hidden close to him, Jeremy purchased his first GPS unit and went out on his first treasure hunt that following weekend.
After he experienced the thrill of finding his first Geocaching he knew it was something he would be very passionate about. Jeremy then decided to start a hobby website for this activity, sort of like the same concept as Mike, however, he called his hobby site Geocaching.com. Bam! And there you have it, how Geocaching.com was created. With the background, Jeremy had he was able to create a very user-friendly website that improved the cache-hunting experience for everyone who enjoyed the game. All of the cache listings were still all added manually by hand but the database help standardize the listings. One large change the site incorporated was being able to search for caches via zip code or postal code making it a lot easier for a newer player to see if there were any hidden caches in their surroundings.
With Mikes Teague's input and help on the site, everything was finalized and announced to the public and the "stash community " on September 2, 2000.
When the site was first launched it only contained 75 Geocaches! Only 75 !! Eight years later and there are 700.000 geocaches uploaded to geocaching.com. The number keeps rising each year I wonder how many geocaches hide in the world today.
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| Morning Geocache We found Summer 2017 Photo: Jessie C Follow @everyday.fun.day |
Did you know that when Geocaching first started it was reserved only for expert GPS users who understood the GPS lingo and all of how it worked? People like me who only understand the basics of the GPS would not have been able to play as easily as I can today. Most people who played already used the technology for backpacking or boating, it was much easier for them to pick up this hobby when it was first launched. Due to the expert players and the new players wanting to play there was a huge learning curve in order for the newer players to keep up and enjoy the game. There weren't many tools to use to detect if there was a cache nearby; therefore making the game the most challenging it's ever been.
As most people playing the game, Jeremy Irish, a web developer for a Seattle company wanted to play the game also and see what it all was about. He fell upon Mike Teague's website in July while doing some research on the GPS. We talk about Mike Teague's in my previous blog post. The entire idea of treasure hunting while using tech gadgets really spiked Jeremy's curiosity. To him, it represented the marriage of two of his biggest interest.
He soon discovered that there was a Geocache hidden close to him, Jeremy purchased his first GPS unit and went out on his first treasure hunt that following weekend.
After he experienced the thrill of finding his first Geocaching he knew it was something he would be very passionate about. Jeremy then decided to start a hobby website for this activity, sort of like the same concept as Mike, however, he called his hobby site Geocaching.com. Bam! And there you have it, how Geocaching.com was created. With the background, Jeremy had he was able to create a very user-friendly website that improved the cache-hunting experience for everyone who enjoyed the game. All of the cache listings were still all added manually by hand but the database help standardize the listings. One large change the site incorporated was being able to search for caches via zip code or postal code making it a lot easier for a newer player to see if there were any hidden caches in their surroundings.
With Mikes Teague's input and help on the site, everything was finalized and announced to the public and the "stash community " on September 2, 2000.
When the site was first launched it only contained 75 Geocaches! Only 75 !! Eight years later and there are 700.000 geocaches uploaded to geocaching.com. The number keeps rising each year I wonder how many geocaches hide in the world today.
Happy Caching!
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| Stone Bridge We Got To See On A Geocaching Hike Photo Credit: Jessie C Follow: @everyday.fun.day - Instagram |
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