Beginning of Geocaching

Date: May 3, 2000 • Location: Rome, Italy

The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. The first geocache was placed in May 2000, and as of 2023 there were over three million active caches worldwide.