one_year_commenters = Counter()
    authors: Dict[str, Author] = {}

    now = datetime.now(tz=timezone.utc)
    one_month_ago = now - timedelta(days=30)
    three_months_ago = now - timedelta(days=90)
    six_months_ago = now - timedelta(days=180)
    one_year_ago = now - timedelta(days=365)

    for discussion in discussion_nodes:
        discussion_author_name = None
        if discussion.author:

# History, Design and Future

Some time ago, <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/issues/3#issuecomment-454956920" class="external-link" target="_blank">a **FastAPI** user asked</a>:

> What’s the history of this project? It seems to have come from nowhere to awesome in a few weeks [...]

Here's a little bit of that history.

## Alternatives

Python 3.6 reached the [end-of-life and is no longer supported by Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3615/) since around a year ago.

You hopefully updated to a supported version of Python a while ago. If you haven't, you really should.

### Features