the oldest snapshot of this story i can find in archive.org is from november 2003 (https://web.archive.org/web/20031114161830/http://www.adequacy.org/public/sto

the oldest snapshot of this story i can find in archive.org is from november 2003 (https://web.archive.org/web/20031114161830/http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html https://web.archive.org/web/20031114161830/http://www.adequa...) , but it seems that yes, it is from 2001