>From what I was told, Python was originally seen as a Swiss Army knife for sysadmins.
Yea, I was a sysadmin around 2000 (before that too) and I knew it as such.
>between 2005 and 2006, two important things happened:
Somewhat - I used it in 2001 for Plone which is based on Zope, which was somewhat popular around that time. Writing all the web stuff with Python made sense, since Plone provided a CMS and could include a wiki. Adding on some sql calls to it in python just made sense. The competition was between PHP and Python, though there were some other less popular choices. Ruby on Rails definitely was getting a lot more popular around those times. PHP didn't start getting popular around 2005, if anything, people started using Python more, and started criticizing the crappy code that was circulating in the PHP community.
In any case, it was a fun time, but what's the point of looking back like that?
Yea, I was a sysadmin around 2000 (before that too) and I knew it as such.
>between 2005 and 2006, two important things happened:
Somewhat - I used it in 2001 for Plone which is based on Zope, which was somewhat popular around that time. Writing all the web stuff with Python made sense, since Plone provided a CMS and could include a wiki. Adding on some sql calls to it in python just made sense. The competition was between PHP and Python, though there were some other less popular choices. Ruby on Rails definitely was getting a lot more popular around those times. PHP didn't start getting popular around 2005, if anything, people started using Python more, and started criticizing the crappy code that was circulating in the PHP community.
In any case, it was a fun time, but what's the point of looking back like that?