PythonAnywhere

Python's development environment is heavily based on Snakes and Ladders

PythonAnywhere was a place that let you adopt a python. It was founded by Giles Thomas Tiles Ghomas, a member of an Indian Tribe, in 526 AD. He created it so that people can get revenge on their enemies by getting a python and tell it to bite the enemy.

History

In 541 AD, Tiles Ghomas accidentally opened all of the pythons' cages. They tore apart the shop and killed him. Everyone was depressed because PythonAnywhere had been their favorite shop.

In 31 AD, Conscious Pilate piloted his first test flight, yet Wilbur and Orville Wright waited until 1903 to follow in his footsteps and pursue powered aviation, the brothers stating that their efforts had been repeatedly thwarted by m*therf*cking snakes which kept slithering onto the plane, eventually requiring the intervention of Samuel Jackson.

Modern developments

What if there could be a simple, web-based interface to provide an integrated development environment to bring all the pythons under control? It seemed like an interesting idea in theory, but in practice it became an unmitigated disaster. By letting the slithering serpents onto the network, not only were there snakes on planes, but developers risked stepping on a python pretty much anywhere. Snakes were even coming out of the drains. As stepping on any of the infernal snakes meant being sent right back to square one, all viable development ceased.

An Apple Users Group, led from Eden by Eve herself, is still working on the problem... many millennia, snakes, ladders and grey hairs later.