Dusty Old Archives

[Wild Cat Bud]

Memories of the old Southeast Texas Geocachers Forum

Sure did hate to see the old houstoncachers.org web site go, and now the old forum has been deleted as well.

I have scraped together some old archived page scattered around my hard drive, and here are some links to some peices and parts of the old forum and a link to the front page of the old web page. So we can remember when..............

This isn't exactly how it looked, as the links to the graphics were on the web page, but I recreated the pics and background as best as I could remember them.
Houstoncachers.org front page

Two looks at the forum home page, and the favorite cache site topic. No messages to read, but a look at who was there and some of what was going on.
Forum Home Page Oct. 29, 2004
Forum Home Page June 21, 2005
Favorite Cache Sites Topic

Captured some talk about the 2005 Texas Geocoin.
Texas Gecoin Topic

And I don't know what's up with this, it was named general index, but it wasn't in html. It was a text file, but still, it's a glimpse at what was going on at the time.
General Index

I have a few other items I will post when I get them rounded up and uploaded.

[geekqualizer]

I have the whole Houstoncachers.org site downloaded as it was before the domain went away. I would be more than happy to burn it to CD and hand deliver it to you. I'm off next week I and will be on your side of town. Maybe we can sit down face to face and talk in length about why the forums went away.

[Wild Cat Bud]

geekqualizer said:

I have the whole Houstoncachers.org site downloaded as it was before the domain went away. I would be more than happy to burn it to CD and hand deliver it to you. I'm off next week I and will be on your side of town. Maybe we can sit down face to face and talk in length about why the forums went away.

Thanks for the offer, that is very kind of you. But dead is dead, and gone is gone, and I'll just remember what I can and let time sweeten the memories. I just wanted to post a few snippets of what I had so some of the earlier times, people and places of geocaching in this area wouldn't be forgotten.

[Wild Cat Bud]

This one came up from the very bottom of the pile! Anyone still out there who remembers the old Bravenet forum? This is just an index of the messages, but it has some tantalizing subject lines that we can only guess at what may have lain beneath! Of course, much conjecture is possible by seeing who posted it.

The Old Bravenet forum--Feb. 2003 to April 2003

[parkerplus]

Where are the poems / songs you came up with?

[Wild Cat Bud]

parkerplus said:

Where are the poems / songs you came up with?

They're on the Jingles from the Jungle board. Not got them all back on there yet, but working on it.....

[Wild Cat Bud]

Turning the dials on the old time machine back to Feb. 24, 2003
Remembering Dan Miller's Geocaching Stats page.

Not nearly as many caches in Houston back then as there are now, and not any easy pickings of 10 or 20 or more caches in a single park like you can find now. If you even tried for 10 finds in one day, you likely had to travel the whole of the city to accomplish it. And that's not even to mention how far the technology has come. It was rough in the "old days"!!!

Click link to see a copy of the original page: Dan Miller's Stats Page (Houston area) 2-24-2003 It has more information than the list copied below, in which the cachers are ranked by their total number of finds and hides in the Houston area only, the linked page also lists their total finds, but is not ranked by total finds.

Active Cachers in the last month: 148 
Active Cachers in the last 3 months: 321 
Total Caches in Houston: 313 
 
Rank Cacher          Found 
1    geowyz            251    
2    usmorrows         239
3    Team Troglodyte   216 
4    Billy H.          188 
5    TerraTrekkers     169
6    sigJ              163 
7    Babslover         156
8    Neo76             146 
9    Neuman            133 
10   Spaceman Spiff    118
10   The Creatures 3   121 
12   cachefans         101
13   Wild Cat Bud       99 
14   txsyank            88 
15   Mudfrog            86 
16   CacheAbels         81 
17   GFDT8              78 
18   Blackbelt          81 
19   Bowen Clan         79 
20   jck                66 
21   DogBiscuit         68 
21   mardocff           63 
23   JimmyEv            65 
24   Richard & Irene    63 
25   Breaktrack         55 
< Prev  Ranks 1 to 25 of 852  Next >  

[Captain J (Retired)]

Neo76, he nearly killed us with the cache “Aint No Way” but we managed to get the FTF. I hear that Neo76 got so many complaints on this cache that he moved it so it would be easier for the faint of heart.
This was a thumbs up cache for me. Sure would like to see Neo76 put out some caches on the East Side of town.