Growing up all I knew was Windows, so being able to create fairly reasonable looking GUI apps at the time seemed like magic. I remember building a "web browser" in VB, I put that in quotes because it was really just an IE webview/control wrapped in my own custom UI with features like not recording browser history.
I remember making a "virus" and sending it to a mate, and when he opened it, you could send messages to him and open the CD drive on his computer.
I remember making a lottery number generator program and sending it to my Dad.
I even remember doing work experience in a computer repairs shop, the guy that ran it used to sell PCs with not so legit software on it and he got me a copy of Visual Basic 6.0, which was amazing at the time.
Definitely attribute my interest in programming, computers and everything to VB, no matter how much its look down upon!