I don't think you could describe J2EE as "made it easier to find less experienced developers to quickly develop sites". If anything, it's diametrically opposed to that goal.
And back in dotcom days, it was ASP, not ASP.NET. Which is to say, much like PHP, except with VBScript as a language, and COM as a library API/ABI.
And back in dotcom days, it was ASP, not ASP.NET. Which is to say, much like PHP, except with VBScript as a language, and COM as a library API/ABI.