Once, in a time between the invention of fire and the dawn of the iPhone, there was an age when Facebook didn't exist.
Users were forced to re-live that age on Friday afternoon when the popular social media site briefly went offline, much to their chagrin.
The outage lasted about 20 minutes for the main site, but some users continued to experience problems with the Facebook mobile app, even after the main site came back up.
The Facebook site had only a simple, frustrating explanation for the outage: "Sorry, something went wrong."
Social media-starved users turned to other web platforms to express their frustration over Facebook's technical issues.
Tweets about #FacebookDown. Tweets about #FacebookDown everywhere. pic.twitter.com/XGaL88TOVs
— Luca Della Dora (@Luca2D) August 1, 2014
Go outside and live your life. #FacebookDown
— Jennifer (@DsouzaJennifer) August 1, 2014
How will people brag about themselves and share selfies with other people who couldn't give a crap? #facebookdown
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) August 1, 2014
Productivity up worldwide. #facebookdown
— Jojo Pasion Malig (@JojoMalig) August 1, 2014
QUICK, EVERYONE POST PICTURES OF YOUR BABIES TO TWITTER #facebookdown
— Erin Gloria Ryan (@morninggloria) August 1, 2014
Facebook is down. You can stop all the lying about your perfect life. Go. Live your actual life. You're free. Finally free.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) August 1, 2014
Anyone else getting this message? #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/qCVeOiuyzx
— Bustle (@bustle) August 1, 2014
#facebookdown ... Sharing my feeling the old fashion way...on a real wall pic.twitter.com/ILKdIERP8K
— CamMi Pham (@cammipham) August 1, 2014
Facebook and Instagram are both down, apparently they were built by the same engineers as the Death Star.
— Darth Vader (@DepressedDarth) August 1, 2014
Facebook's down. If everyone could just tweet me their Candy Crush scores directly, that would help out a lot.
— Grant Brisbee (@mccoveychron) August 1, 2014
Facebook you had one job. #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/XqKEvu7Hah
— You had one job (@_youhadonejob) August 1, 2014
Since #facebookdown I've been going around poking co-workers and commenting on photos they have at their desk. One sec, HR is calling...
— Andy Bowers (@evilpez4) August 1, 2014
#FacebookDown But to be fair, that many selfies of ugly people and misspelled political posts would probably bring you down too.
— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) August 1, 2014
The mobile app and Messengers services appeared to still be operational.
It's not the first time the site has suddenly gone down. Facebook and it's sister site, Instagram, were both out of commission for an hour on Jan. 27, 2015. Facebook also went offline for about 20 minutes last year, on Aug. 1.
Both outages triggered similar flurries of activity on Twitter.
