Man, the VB 1.0 screen brought back memories. I purchased VB 1.0 the week it was released. It was part of the beginning of the visual development paradigm and spread quickly. I was truly amazed at how quickly I could develop applications and it was capable of far more than it was rated to do. A contractor I worked with used VB 1.0 to develop a very sophisticated LAN sniffer application and another app that captured and collected raw satellite feeds for display and manipulation. He did all of this in just five days time from the day we installed the package. I still have a box stored away that has Win 3.1 and VB 1.0 on it. I wish I had the time to drag it out and fire it up again.
I was blown away by VB1. I was so much into the DOS mentality, though, that I eventually just stuck the diskette at the back of the pile. Several years later, I needed some Windows power and stumbled on VB3 (had forgotten all about VB in the meantime). It was even better than I remembered and I was still able to design an app in a couple days.
For my money, you can take VB.net and stuff it.