> “The story so far:

> In the beginning the Universe was created.

> This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

> 2006 | launch of microblogging service Twitter

According to the table, it seems that happened ~2,800,000 years ago.

Thousands of years ago at least, though mostly in a religious context (hells, millenarianism etc)