2 Nov
2009
2 Nov
'09
5:24 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Halarewich" <halarewich at
gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Why I never saw my own posts!
Indeed. I do apologise; I appear to have remembered incorrectly.
Perhaps I was confusing it with Frontpage, acquired from Vermeer, or
Visio, acquired from the eponymous company.
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from wikipeadia
History
VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991. The drag and drop design for creating the
user interface is derived from a prototype form generator developed by
Alan
Cooper <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cooper> and his company called *
Tripod*. Microsoft contracted with Cooper and his associates to develop
Tripod into a programmable form system for Windows 3.0, under the code
name
*Ruby* (no relation to the Ruby programming
language<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)>
).
So it wasn't a ready made app like Visio that MS purchased, just a form
generator that MS turned into VB using a 3rd party. And like many MS
products it took then a few revisions for it to be good enough to use.