This particular copy-pasta of the story is dated to 2022, but the story is much older (I mean, obviously it happened in the 60s, but I think the word-for-word copy is more recent). The story was published online at least as early as 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20071201072335/http://www.916-st...
Previously discussed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133282 (2008)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=519337 (2009)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652643 (2012)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500153 (2019)