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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by nine_k on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:02PM (#14713423)
Wikipedia launched in 2001. Facebook launched in 2004.

The choice was narrower then. Ruby and Python, while already active, did not have nice web and DB frameworks (both RoR and Django started in 2005). Java was also much less mature, and even more wordy.

PHP, on the other had, was easy to get from any shared hoster.

Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by fulafel on Monday July 10, 2017 @03:18PM (#14738811)
There were many good web libraries/frameworks for Python before Django. One even had a transactional NoSQL object database.