Ask HN: How much was Python used from 1991 to 2006? What for?

Question inspired by the recent discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29354474) that mentioned how Python wasn't a big deal before it had a data science / ML ecosystem. Right now in addition to data science there's also web backend stuff with Django, Flask, FatAPI. What else are people doing with it now? What about 20 years ago?

People who were using Python back then, what was your experience?