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:) we probably crossed paths, good times

Checking in. I learned OSCAR and YMSG before HTTP. I recently tried to find a modern vb6 type setup that wasn't DOM (electron style) based and works cross platform. Best I found was javafx and scene builder.

You might try Lazarus Ide. Very much like VB6 though language is free pascal. Actively developed, good documentation, and lots of libraries. https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

My first experience with programming was creating my own fader for AOL. Great times.

Did you release it? What was it?

It would have been around a few 100MB as most hard drives were less than 1GB back then.

to put things in perspective this article is bigger than 100mb so bigger than vb distribution!

When vb5 was around my hard drive at home was 3GB.