Geocaching: first cache and replication
Activity · 2000 · Niche
A GPS treasure hunt grew from one Oregon bucket to 75 listed caches in four months.
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Listed caches worldwide
- ~75
- Geocaching.com launch · Sep 2, 2000 · Open web · Self-reported · Geocaching HQ
- Seed to milestone
- 4 months
- May 3 ’00 to Sep 2 ’00
- Platforms
- 2
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Organic
- Culture (no sector)
How it spread
Trace the originDave Ulmer posted a hidden bucket’s coordinates to a GPS newsgroup. Other readers found it and hid their own caches. A shared directory and later news coverage helped the activity escape its original technical audience.
Documented milestone; not a measured attention peak.
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May 2000
Dave Ulmer seed · May 3 ’00
Ulmer hid a bucket near Beavercreek and posted its coordinates to a GPS newsgroup.[1]
Peter McKellar platform jump · May 12 ’00
Placed a red-bucket cache near Rotorua, New Zealand; the surviving listing invites others to create more hides.[7]
Matt Stum platform jump · May 30 ’00
Stum proposed the name geocaching on the GPS Stash Hunt mailing list.[1]
Spread the same way
New cases, every week
How the next thing spread, the week it does.