Starting a long-form history of Visual Basic on EvilGeniusLabs.ca. Chapter 1 covers the BASIC dynasty Microsoft had been running since 1975, the California developer Microsoft bought to put a face on it, and the launch pitch Bill Gates seeded in BYTE Magazine eighteen months before VB shipped. Six articles, focused on the parts of the story that don't get covered.
They’re just generated images, what’s the issue?
The issue is that’s incoherent and cheapens otherwise good writing on a topic with images and interfaces that aren’t accurate representations of the topic. To wit:
Compare these to what VB development actually looked like (I’m old, I was there, I programmed in VB professionally), and you’ll see how much of a disservice the AI slop images in the article do to the actual experience of working in the language:
(credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)#/media/File:Microsoft_Visual_Basic_for_MS-DOS_(Professional_Edition_Version1.00).png )
Finding this accurate, fair use license image took me minutes.