For every .net/desktop developer there are 100 developers doing web (front-end or backend). It was less than 100x in late 90s but it probably was more than 2x,

For every .net/desktop developer there are 100 developers doing web (front-end or backend). It was less than 100x in late 90s but it probably was more than 2x, even in those early days of the web. And that's the difference between "dominant" and "growing". Windows desktop development might have been still growing at the time but web was growing much faster and fairly quickly became dominant.