What did it look like when you created your team name?

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:49 pm

With GC having a birthday and the WGA coming up on a big one, I hit the wayback machine to see what the number of caches were on the day I joined GC.com

Here's the link to my date in 2005:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050613000508/http://www.geocaching.com/

What did yours look like?

Mine was: There are 173985 active caches in 214 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 115366 new logs written by 21112 account holders.

I used http://archive.org/web/web.php to get there.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:50 pm

Today's GC page listing is:
There are 1,878,047 active geocaches and over 5 million geocachers worldwide.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:08 pm

http://web.archive.org/web/20020125094730/http://www.geocaching.com/

As of today, there are 11883 active caches in 104 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 6635 new logs written by 2526 account holders

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:17 pm

There are 420309 active caches worldwide.
In the last 7 days, there have been 288034 new logs written by 42917 account holders.

Just over two years later.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:47 pm

close as I could get to my March 21, 2006 start date was March 15, 2006 which looked like this:

There are 244414 active caches in 221 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 150697 new logs written by 25451 account holders.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:49 pm

Lone Gunman is O L D...

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:50 pm

labrat_wr wrote:

Lone Gunman is O L D...

All I hear is "squeek, squeek, squeek"

WGA Member Joined: 2008-09-10 Posts: 231

As close as we could get to our Dec 25, 2006 start date:
There are 341174 active caches worldwide.
In the last 7 days, there have been 149534 new logs written by 24556 account holders.

Today:
There are 1,878,047 active geocaches and over 5 million geocachers worldwide.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:19 pm

Per the 'Wayback' site, about a month after we signed up:

"As of today, there are 76,101 active caches in 190 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 37,016 new logs written by 8839 account holders."

Wow, have things changed, eh?

cYa, Jim & Chris

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:44 pm

For us here is the info on October 17, 2006.

There are 323176 active caches in 222 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 215503 new logs written by 34325 account holders.

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:56 pm

From when we signed up for a GC account on September 1, 2007 (and I started lurking):

*** There are 451180 active caches worldwide.
*** In the last 7 days, there have been 323307 new logs written by 46317 account holders.

From the day we found our first cache and wrote our first log on October 17, 2007:

*** There are 473064 active caches worldwide.
*** In the last 7 days, there have been 305727 new logs written by 45041 account holders.

I remember when GC clicked over to 500,000 caches not long after we started geocaching.
Averith, it looks like you are one geoyear older than we are!

WGA Member Joined: 2006-12-23 Posts: 5955

I'm pretty close to WA on dates but what I saw was the difference in the site! I favor the one then for navigation but enjoy a couple of features now

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:06 am

Oct 31, 2004

As of today, there are 127,126 active caches in 211 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 70,144 new logs written by 13,823 account holders.

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 7:40 am

Looks like the Yellow Jeep announcement took the space of the count when we started

http://web.archive.org/web/20040723013523/http://www.geocaching.com/

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 7:51 am

sweetlife wrote:

Looks like the Yellow Jeep announcement took the space of the count when we started

http://web.archive.org/web/20040723013523/http://www.geocaching.com/

It was there for me too...click on the ABOUT GEOCACHING tab. The stats are towards the top.