... You still didn't mention a single API. And yes, python was in complete disuse that only obscure academics used it (Which is what google was founded by). I

... You still didn't mention a single API. And yes, python was in complete disuse that only obscure academics used it (Which is what google was founded by). I mentioned in my comment it only gained traction after google and django before then it was niche Zope and CGI. All your citations don't actually refute it, they in fact strengthen it... So show me an API that existed in 1998... all you showed me was that SOAP was 'designed' in 1998... Are you really citing "Netscape Enterprise Server" as proof python was in wide usage? Paul Graham sold a business to yahoo, wasn't it in lisp? Did it have an API? does it actually prove any of the points you made, or is it just a statement about "There was business on the internet" which I never refuted. You were really scrounging to come up with pretty much nothing, so thanks for further illustrating my point :)