PHP is what pushed it out of that position, not Python or Ruby Exactly true. PHP was the thing to use in 2001. At that time Ruby was rarely used for web purpos

PHP is what pushed it out of that position, not Python or Ruby Exactly true. PHP was the thing to use in 2001. At that time Ruby was rarely used for web purposes, and most Ruby libraries, while extensively documented, were mostly documented in Japanese with a tiny, incomplete English version with horrible grammar. And Python? Well, there was no Django, Flask, WSGI, SQLAlchemy, Pyramid or other frameworks/utilities that Python programmers enjoy today, and Python was rarely used in a web context.