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www.triax.com/yngwie/gps.html (started May, 2000; now dead)
The first documented placement of a GPS-located cache took place on May 3, 2000, by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon.
Slashdot, a popular online magazine for techies, reported the new activity on September 25, 2000, introducing a larger group of technology professionals to the activity.
The first recorded instance of a geocaching get-together (now known as an event cache) was held in Austin, Texas, on March 24, 2001.
Despite a promising beginning, demands on the Webmaster's time by work and family prevented continued development and activity at GeocachingWorldwide ceased in late 2001.
movingcache.com (Dec, 2004; now retired)
As of early 2006, many Web sites had emerged that listed geocache listings.
The government had planned to remove selective availability - but had until 2006 to do so.
The original cache contained a travel bug (the first geocaching trackable item in space), which stayed on the station until it was brought back to earth in 2013.
The second geocaching trackable in space is TB5EFXK which is attached to the SHERLOC calibration target on board the Mars Perseverance Rover, which landed on Mars on 18 February 2021.
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