I got into the web in 1994 and never left, it has been the majority of my programming ever since :)
Even the COBOL and Oracle I did I think prepared me for it when you consider how "batch" oriented web interactions are in the backend.
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I've worked on a lot of back office apps and now on stuff for testing hardware. Anything public facing may need to be more polished and then there's all the security issues. I just like hacking code.
So it's python for the backoffice and hardware testing stuff too?
A thing I love about programming is it means so many different things to different people. My buddy John coded software drivers for things like hard drives etc for a while, and another buddy Joe works on PLC for oil and gas machinery - it is amazing all the different niches that exist :)
The office stuff was various languages including C# on Oracle back end. The Python testing systems replace old apps written in Tcl. It's hard to find people who know that and Python can do the job. I know a lot of legacy systems never get replaced so people who know languages like Cobol can still find work. Not that I ever did Cobol.
Programming is about solving problems and I enjoy that.