Visual Basic on Windows 3.1 was a total game-changer when it dropped in 1991. Before that, building Windows apps meant diving deep into C and Windows API headaches—but VB made it simple with drag-and-drop forms and code you could actually read. Version 1.0 showed up alongside Windows 3.0’s growing popularity, and by the time VB 3.0 hit in ‘93, it included full database support with Jet (Access), which basically made it the go-to for business apps. This was the era where you’d build an app, compile it, and run it on a chunky CRT—all from a machine rocking 4MB of RAM. It wasn’t flashy, but if you were coding in the ‘90s, Visual Basic was your toolbox.