ShowCaveBlog

Showcaves.com is now 15 years online. The first descriptions of caves and the collection of useful information was made around 1990 by Jochen Duckeck, first for the new show caves in eastern Germany, which became accessible after the border was opend in November 1989.
The first idea to publish a guidebook was never realized: printing books was expensive and impossible to finance by a student. The first online version was created in 1994 with the tool latex2html from the original LaTeX book. So actually showcaves.com went online 15 years ago.
In this early times it was hosted on the webserver of the FORWISS in Erlangen, the company where Jochen Duckeck worked at this time. It listed 55 show caves in Germany and started with the first caves in other countries.
In 1995 the site was hosted by the new company of Jochen Duckeck, the small internet company mediatec. Finally in 1998 the website was moved to bubis.com, and 2002 it got its own domain showcaves.com, hosted by domainfactory. And that is where it is hosted until today.
Today showcaves.com lists almost 3,500 underground tourist sites or subterranea, including show caves, show mines, cellars, bunkers, tunnels and much more.

It seems some guys try to place their ads in the comments of innocent blogs. Using  the old version of  WordPress, I had little chance to filter spam automatically. I hope I did not delete your comment by deleting dozens of online poker spam.

First I changed to moderated mode, which resulted in a lot of manual work to read all comments and delete all spam.

I have now installed the new version of WordPress, which allows to shredder comments with certain terms immediately without any notification, which spares a lot of work. So please do not use the terms “poker” or “blackjack” in your comments or the will never make it to the moderation. More term may be added soon, especially the names of certain drug. This should not be a problem on a show cave related blog, I just wanted to let you know.

Welcome to the new blog of showcaves.com.

I will use this blog, to post rumours, news and whatever. I guess its better a better system for this kind of information than normal webpages or even mailing lists.

The show caves mailing list will be discontinued, as I never used it. I always thought, my informations were too unimportant to make a posting. Probably this will change, as a blog does not demand that much.

So welcome to the new show caves blog.

Jochen