I was a hobby VB developer at this time and I abandoned it shortly after VB.net without really realizing why. I also abandoned Windows completely shortly therea

I was a hobby VB developer at this time and I abandoned it shortly after VB.net without really realizing why. I also abandoned Windows completely shortly thereafter. The main thing that killed me was the size of the files that you had to distribute when you used VB.net. No one had the .net runtime early on and it was absolutely massive. I was paying for outgoing data by the gigabyte back then and our connections were much slower.