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> I suppose a 2005 computer wouldn't be able to serve a Python backend smoothly.

Python had web servers from 2000, including Jim Fulton's Zope (really a full framework for a content management system) and in 2002 Remi Delon's CherryPy.

Both were useful for their day, well supported by web hosting companies, and certainly very lightweight compared to commercial Java systems that typically needed beefy Sun Solaris servers.

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I'd forgotten about CherryPy until Turbogears was mentioned the other day in the Django birthday thread.

But yeah Python was on an upswing for webdev and sysadmin (early DevOps?) tooling, but took quite a hit with Ruby eg Rails, Puppet, Vagrant and Chef etc.

But Python hung on and had a comeback due to data science tooling, and Ruby losing it's hype to node for webdev and golang for the devops stuff.

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