What is the history of Django?

Direct link to my answer on Quora (the above links to a note on my blog about Quora): http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-the-Django-web-f...

"We never really intended to build a web framework" <-- I find that it's usually a sign of a great product. Instead of designing a framework to design a framework, something is created to fix a real problem.. and only then, a framework is built around it.