Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)

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  • @thecastiel69
    @thecastiel69 4 роки тому +3180

    Looks like some Udemy tutorial

    • @elcarmi
      @elcarmi 4 роки тому +132

      Oh yeah.. and this guy in the video should make a course on Udemy.. He would make some money there

    • @sanjaikumar5432
      @sanjaikumar5432 4 роки тому +18

      Udemy is not quality leaning path. I just got a video for Rs. 400 and after that I realized It was waste of Time and Money as well... So, I moved to Pluralsight

    • @bitcoinblockchain431
      @bitcoinblockchain431 4 роки тому +5

      hahahaha

    • @Will-jk6nw
      @Will-jk6nw 4 роки тому +16

      @@sanjaikumar5432 shill?

    • @DepakKumar08
      @DepakKumar08 4 роки тому +52

      @@sanjaikumar5432 There are great courses in Udemy, you should research each course before buying. It is a platform, there are both good and bad courses.

  • @Desuetus
    @Desuetus 4 роки тому +2112

    I hope someone at Google gets this video recommended and learns how to make a functioning calendar for android.

    • @Kosaro1234
      @Kosaro1234 4 роки тому +52

      What's wrong with the Google calendar?

    • @abdulhamidalfani
      @abdulhamidalfani 4 роки тому +3

      Ikr

    • @Desuetus
      @Desuetus 4 роки тому +149

      @@Kosaro1234 Well, I created yearly recurring notifications for birthday dates. I missed all of them. Google calendar thought they should be erased. Then I had a non-recurring notification for my tire change. It is now recurring until the end of time. I delete it and it stays there. But the calendar has nice drawings, the color palette works.

    • @Kosaro1234
      @Kosaro1234 4 роки тому +17

      @@Desuetus when you delete a date it asks you if you want to delete just this one or all the following ones as well, so you could fix without mush hassle. For the birthdays it sounds like you either didn't press save after you told it to recur yearly, or you put them in a calender that you unlinked, since it let's you have all your calenders in the same place but also allows you to remove some if you so please.

    • @Desuetus
      @Desuetus 4 роки тому +54

      @@Kosaro1234 I know what you're saying, I troubleshooted to despair, but the calendar has its own agenda. And if a basic app requires constant tweaking and "easy fixes" and basically drives you nut, it's a fail.

  • @ClashOfClans700
    @ClashOfClans700 4 роки тому +4994

    This guy is pretty smart, he should start his own software company.

    • @xeraphim
      @xeraphim 4 роки тому +249

      Ye and he should make like an os and name it windows

    • @112Armis
      @112Armis 4 роки тому +114

      @@xeraphim and certainly he should make it from scratch and not by reverse engineering a certain product from apple :))

    • @lolish1234
      @lolish1234 4 роки тому +69

      @@112Armis because most of the companies of that time didnt copy a lot from one another (xerox, hp, apple, microsoft etc)

    • @112Armis
      @112Armis 4 роки тому +21

      @@lolish1234 yes yes I'm aware of that, but since he's called very smart i'm just making people aware of the fact that he didn't "invent" windows :)

    • @alerey4363
      @alerey4363 4 роки тому +35

      I come from the future and this guy is planning world domination via a nasty vaccine for which he created a global pandemic; trust me, this guy is evil

  • @codinginflow
    @codinginflow 4 роки тому +1021

    I remember trying out this program as a child and having no clue what to do with it

    • @zerkalt190
      @zerkalt190 4 роки тому +37

      You old

    • @ritiksahu1844
      @ritiksahu1844 4 роки тому +12

      I watch ur tuts and they are really helpful

    • @tarek84knight
      @tarek84knight 4 роки тому +5

      @@zerkalt190 old is gold

    • @bboydarknesz
      @bboydarknesz 4 роки тому +4

      what r u doing here

    • @Secret666
      @Secret666 4 роки тому +6

      I did level 1 and 2 in college for VBasic lol found it very useful =/

  • @antonyquinncom
    @antonyquinncom 2 роки тому +417

    Hats off to Alan Cooper, the "Father of Visual Basic" and pioneer of interaction design. I started my software development career in 1995 as a VB programmer. I was fortunate to work with a cognitive scientist who introduced me to Cooper's book "About Face" and led me to specialise in what's now known as user experience design.

    • @NeoTechni
      @NeoTechni 2 роки тому +14

      Agreed. I STILL program in VB6

    • @TheSimoc
      @TheSimoc Рік тому +6

      @@NeoTechni Yep, only wish modern IDEs would be nearly that professionally made. Applies though also on about all kinds of software..

    • @solasauto
      @solasauto Рік тому +9

      Then you should start making better shit, last 20 years you have only buried things deeper behind buttons. It used to be right click. Now you have to click 5-6 times on different useless pages. Software will never be as good as they where I think, because nobody makes money of perfect.

    • @EricD_192
      @EricD_192 Рік тому +1

      ​@@solasautocry

    • @cesarabosetti8592
      @cesarabosetti8592 Рік тому

      Thanks for adding this explanation (I didn't know it).
      And given the context, seeing how it relates to your career, it's interesting.
      Regards.

  • @darrelwilson
    @darrelwilson 4 роки тому +2431

    See you in a few months when this is recommended to us again

    • @nopens
      @nopens 4 роки тому +16

      UA-cam really turns into tv more and more.

    • @diracflux
      @diracflux 4 роки тому +10

      Less than 19 hours and I’m back.

    • @bob2.02
      @bob2.02 4 роки тому +2

      Lol

    • @guilherme5094
      @guilherme5094 4 роки тому +1

      Yes.

    • @vladimirlong7125
      @vladimirlong7125 4 роки тому +9

      I swear to god one day I'll find a youtube video comments section where nobody talks about it being recommanded or just the recommandations in general ... One day ...

  • @dukat03
    @dukat03 4 роки тому +2868

    When is this available on Windows 10?

    • @WatercraftGames
      @WatercraftGames 4 роки тому +214

      It's already on windows 10, but it's called visual studio

    • @kavind1331
      @kavind1331 4 роки тому +394

      @@WatercraftGames i'm pretty sure he was joking

    • @FASINFO
      @FASINFO 4 роки тому +33

      Vba for application in the office

    • @yashwanth8841
      @yashwanth8841 4 роки тому +37

      @@kavind1331 and I'm pretty sure watercraft was joking too

    • @saidtaliby
      @saidtaliby 4 роки тому +17

      Just open Excel or Word and use Alt+F11

  • @muralikrishnan9791
    @muralikrishnan9791 4 роки тому +217

    I mean its so hilarious. I love how he pushes his programs and features with a fun element in it. Plus straight to the point no beating around the bush.

    • @PennyHerbst
      @PennyHerbst 4 роки тому +4

      You mean he is shaved?

    • @EvilSapphireR
      @EvilSapphireR Рік тому

      @@PennyHerbst He means Melinda is shaved

    • @fundemort
      @fundemort Рік тому +2

      @@EvilSapphireR so no Melinda Bush?

    • @jaykay7932
      @jaykay7932 Рік тому

      He pushes his vaccines this way too except a tad more aggressive

  • @benjohnson5897
    @benjohnson5897 4 роки тому +79

    I remember using VB for the first time and it felt like magic, having only had text-based tools prior to this.

    • @nahiyanalamgir7056
      @nahiyanalamgir7056 Рік тому +8

      And fast-forward to today, we still don't have a cross-platform GUI tool that works the best.

    • @cmaxz817
      @cmaxz817 Рік тому +1

      Well, at least someone's trying to unify such like Flutter, QT, or GTK.

    • @nahiyanalamgir7056
      @nahiyanalamgir7056 Рік тому

      @@cmaxz817 Who?

    • @JacobSnover
      @JacobSnover Рік тому +1

      ​@@nahiyanalamgir7056 They're getting closer though, I work primarily in Blazor these days, and what they have in the works for .NET 8 and Blazor is going to be awesome. I agree 100% that none of them are great at the moment for cross-platform, but I do see a lot of work toward that.

    • @nahiyanalamgir7056
      @nahiyanalamgir7056 Рік тому

      @@JacobSnover I agree with you regarding Blazor and .NET 8. Man, these products are amazing!
      But coming back to GUI, it's sad that a cheap copy-paste of web technology into desktop is taking over. The only good native cross-platform libraries that I could find are wxWidgets and Qt.
      If you want a platform-independent GUI rendering library, I can't see any. Qt is somewhat in this category but its licence is restrictive. I'll check out how Flutter is doing in the desktop so far.
      And since the market is now heavily focused on mobile users, no one barely gives a F about desktop. This is sad because most people have a laptop or desktop at home and work.

  • @Account4096
    @Account4096 4 роки тому +227

    University professors: PLAN B FOR THE STUDENTS IT IS

  • @ronny-andrebendiksen4137
    @ronny-andrebendiksen4137 4 роки тому +433

    I learned developing using Visual Basic when I was 10 years old. That was really fun.

    • @blackmilk7930
      @blackmilk7930 4 роки тому +20

      They were teaching us in high scool and i was like what is this shit never felt like a programmer at all just a felling of playing with buttons and writing bull shit but when met with javascript then felt like a programmer 4 real

    • @iDontProgramInCpp
      @iDontProgramInCpp 4 роки тому +31

      @@blackmilk7930 C is where the real programming is at. JavaScript is basically C for kiddies

    • @Aimbotfortune
      @Aimbotfortune 4 роки тому +7

      @@iDontProgramInCpp Tell that to the numerous JS roles

    • @CreeperSlenderman
      @CreeperSlenderman 4 роки тому +32

      @@iDontProgramInCpp shut up, the real thing is assembly

    • @iDontProgramInCpp
      @iDontProgramInCpp 4 роки тому +18

      @@CreeperSlenderman No, assembly is just an excuse to avoid a proper language. It's basically glorified machine code, which is 90% of the time never fun to write, since something that takes 1 line in C (c += 9) would take about 3 instructions in assembly (6502: lda $yourAddr, adc #$9, sta $yourAddr)
      It's definitely useful in some cases, like when proper toolchains are missing or you wanna do low level stuff (ex in/out instructions on x86), but oftentimes, C is better, since while a human CAN write better assembly than a C compiler can, usually they will not, so the C compiler wins.

  • @an1rb
    @an1rb 4 роки тому +637

    One thrill of watching old Microsoft launch videos is you never know when the demo being shown is about to crash.

    • @the_kombinator
      @the_kombinator Рік тому +14

      two years later and that was my first thought as well. Although I use Win 3.x weekly, for fun, and I very, very rarely get BSODs. I get them more on Win 95.

    • @nerbs101
      @nerbs101 Рік тому +4

      Ironically, my tab crashed not even a minute in, just this one tab tho lol.

    • @jaykay7932
      @jaykay7932 Рік тому +2

      @@the_kombinator good point. I had windows 3.1 and can’t recall ever seeing it blue screen

    • @the_kombinator
      @the_kombinator Рік тому

      @@jaykay7932 I've seen it happen once this year, a VXD error because my soundcard wasn't holding the parameters properly and it was screwing with the init parameters. Once you clear the error, it was usable. Of course to fix it all I had to do was change my soundcard's jumper from CONFIG FILE to EEPROM and it held ;)

    • @qqleq
      @qqleq Рік тому +3

      True. To be fair, Apple was lucky because their code when demonstrating was often just a prototype and a lot of people were praying it wouldn't crash. Says Jobs' biography.
      Having done software presentations myself: the last code/debug is often written five minutes before presentation - so go figure...

  • @rogermouton2273
    @rogermouton2273 4 роки тому +412

    Must've seemed utterly revolutionary at the time. I don't care what anyone says, Microsoft was an extremely innovative company. This is the sort of tech that would sell itself.

    • @HeatingUpDuke
      @HeatingUpDuke 4 роки тому +8

      VB added a few interface features but was mainly a port of Hypercard.

    • @juliusfucik4011
      @juliusfucik4011 4 роки тому +15

      They still are. You should just not look at their products and judge their innovation based on it, but mostly at Microsoft Research. It's amazing what comes out of there. Of course, hardly anything makes it into actual products.
      I actually used Windows Phone 10 for a few years and I was really sad when support was stopped. The camera on my Lumia 950 XL is still great. I just use it to watch Netflix and UA-cam now and have a cheap Android phone for everything else. Microsoft could have become a third player in the phone market. The OS was really great to use. But of course, apps were lacking a bit, which made it impossible to continue for them.
      By the way, Windows 10 is fine, although I prefer to use Linux for my work.

    • @brianarmstrong234
      @brianarmstrong234 4 роки тому +5

      A similar product called InterfaceBuilder was demonstrated on NeXTSTEP in 1988. Almost 3 full years earlier than this product.

    • @ergpopler413
      @ergpopler413 4 роки тому +1

      @@juliusfucik4011 Agreed, i use linux aswell.

    • @wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20
      @wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 3 роки тому

      @@HeatingUpDuke Do you think Hypercard didn't borrow any ideas from anywhere?

  • @KyleHarrisonRedacted
    @KyleHarrisonRedacted Рік тому +30

    I remember how totally blown away I was when I discovered this for myself but in Visual C# for Windows 7. Up till then I’d been doing CLI programs because writing the UI with the Win32 api was such an annoying experience. This rocked my world

  • @m.x.
    @m.x. 4 роки тому +1530

    This was precisely why Microsoft overtook Apple. It doesn't matter how cool and fancy your computer and OS is, you need to deliver useful software apps.

    • @V3ntilator
      @V3ntilator 4 роки тому +41

      Microsoft also made Amiga Basic in 1985 for Commodore.

    • @MrPirateking619
      @MrPirateking619 4 роки тому +44

      u do realize bill copied apples OS just 3 months before macs software launch, steve gambled alot to let bill test his OS

    • @BuffedSquirrel
      @BuffedSquirrel 4 роки тому +177

      @@MrPirateking619 copying functionality, not code. That's a huge difference.

    • @Daniel-vc1oc
      @Daniel-vc1oc 4 роки тому +113

      @@MrPirateking619 And they both copied IBM...

    • @simon.conner
      @simon.conner 4 роки тому +110

      @@MrPirateking619 Apple has been coping Android for about 10 years now.

  • @williamculver112
    @williamculver112 4 роки тому +230

    Back when Times New Roman font wasn't discriminated against

    • @gobimurugesan2411
      @gobimurugesan2411 4 роки тому +6

      I am still using it

    • @chizuru1999
      @chizuru1999 4 роки тому +19

      Lmao people still use it for official documents. It's not like it got vanished.

    • @Lexyvil
      @Lexyvil 3 роки тому +6

      It's used in my university. Wasn't it Comic Sans that people looked down upon?

    • @99Gara99
      @99Gara99 3 роки тому

      As far as I know it's a standard in scientific community

    • @meyague
      @meyague 3 роки тому

      the one looked down at is comic sans

  • @EhPlusGamer
    @EhPlusGamer 4 роки тому +494

    We laugh at this now, but this probably blew minds back in the day.

    • @arlandi
      @arlandi 4 роки тому +26

      it did

    • @barbarella7028
      @barbarella7028 4 роки тому +21

      No. Many of us used Sun, Apollo, or DEC workstations.
      We thought PCs were cheap & nasty crap and a backward progression in computer technology.

    • @ET_AYY_LMAO
      @ET_AYY_LMAO 4 роки тому +22

      Not really. Hypercard was around for a long time before VB. This blew no minds at all, because as allways Microsoft had copied a competitor.

    • @Sparrow-tn9jj
      @Sparrow-tn9jj 4 роки тому +3

      Bill and his jew brother Mark were funded by the us military

    • @guyeshel9316
      @guyeshel9316 4 роки тому +13

      @@Sparrow-tn9jj Oh, I thought you gonna say they were funded by the Rothschilds

  • @davep9565
    @davep9565 2 роки тому +14

    I remember seeing a demo that did a "Hello world" dialog with a few lines of code in VB 1.0 compared to a page of C++. Almost unbelievable at the time

  • @judahb3ar
    @judahb3ar Рік тому +20

    It’s incredible how much the world of computers has changed in just 30 short years, and how much these computers have changed the world as a whole. Just incredible.

    • @Sander-Brilman
      @Sander-Brilman Рік тому +4

      the winforms look almost exactly the same though 😂

  • @kapriolenpfeifer
    @kapriolenpfeifer 4 роки тому +80

    I love how he says he's using a macro. Nowadays everyone tries to hide it.

    • @kapriolenpfeifer
      @kapriolenpfeifer 4 роки тому +2

      @@Traumatree 1. "so I don't make a typing mistake" quote of him. 2. I had a 486 and it wasn't that slow. copy paste had a limit in length as far as I remember, but it wasn't slow like a type macro.

  • @ImranSahir1
    @ImranSahir1 4 роки тому +21

    I'm not a developer or anything, my first exposure to programing was visual basic 6.0 and I remember staying up all night to figure out things I wanted to do with it. Perhaps it was because of that time that I still want to go back to learn coding every now and then.

  • @hotpil7020
    @hotpil7020 4 роки тому +207

    There is a lot of negativity expressed now days towards Bill Gates and MS but no one can deny that they have revolutionized the whole computer industry more than once. So Bill is probably one of the greatest geniuses of the 20 century.

    • @hongkongcantonese501
      @hongkongcantonese501 4 роки тому +38

      I don't think anyone can deny that he is a central figure of the 20th and 21st centuries. Without him, millions of people around the world wouldn't have gotten into programming. Now, in the 21st century he and his wife are showing the rest of the world what philanthropy can be with major initiatives in health and education.

    • @malexandersalazar
      @malexandersalazar 4 роки тому +10

      There is a lot of misinformation also.

    • @BOZ_11
      @BOZ_11 4 роки тому +10

      @@hongkongcantonese501 his philanthropy is not even 1% of what national governments do on a monthly basis; this adoration of the rich is mere sycophancy

    • @hongkongcantonese501
      @hongkongcantonese501 4 роки тому +31

      @@BOZ_11 you can't compare an individual to a government. It's not adoration to give someone credit for the good things they have done. Is he a saint? No one is. But don't confuse appreciation of good works as worshipping at the altar of Mammon.

    • @BOZ_11
      @BOZ_11 4 роки тому +1

      @@hongkongcantonese501 Noted, but sycophants are two a penny and I thought your appraisal was a little grand since it spanned two centuries, when in reality his work between 1985 and 2001 (a much shorter period, barely scraping the 21st century) more or less changed the face of computing. Point taken in any case

  • @darkveneno6155
    @darkveneno6155 4 роки тому +332

    The way he pronounced “drag”
    It’s like the word was just invented.

  • @redcrafterlppa303
    @redcrafterlppa303 2 роки тому +14

    He was far ahead of his time. The fact that visual web design became a thing only recently. That visual application design was created in 1991 is mind blowing. I actually started programming with visual basic and the form designer. Without that I wouldn't be a software developer now.

    • @thundurr
      @thundurr Рік тому

      I think the other thing is that you think 1991 is recent.. That was 31 years ago, older than most people who use these tools

    • @the_kombinator
      @the_kombinator Рік тому

      LOL I remember coding pages with Notepad... then FrontPage came out. It was awful by today's standards of course, but the difference was like PC speaker sounds compared to a half-decent SB clone.

    • @redcrafterlppa303
      @redcrafterlppa303 Рік тому

      @@thundurr no way didn't the world explode after the millennium bug??... Just kidding. Yeah but in terms of many computing systems 1991 is still pretty near if you consider that many pc still run xp which is only 10 years newer. Lagacy code from "the good old days" is dragging us down while those who try to replace it stand in a room filled with flames. The shadow of old code will always be there.

    • @thundurr
      @thundurr Рік тому

      @@redcrafterlppa303 Legacy code is still used in the banks and financial systems, “works” and no one can be bothered to learn the language to fiddle with it

    • @DavidNewmon
      @DavidNewmon Рік тому +1

      Visual web design was occurring back in the 90s as well. Dreamweaver was popular but so was Visual Web Developer Express. It had similar drag & drop into the UI functionality with HTML. They didn't survive the great HTML standardization efforts led by FireFox/Netscape, and later Chrome. XHTML had a popular moment due to it's more strict/rigid code design, but was soon scrapped and the web continued to become a bigger and bigger disaster of ideas jumbled together. Now the native language of the web is nearly lost in the ecosystem of translation compilers (TypeScript => JS, SCSS => CSS). The other big issue was screen sizes/resolutions transitioned from somewhat predictable to don't even try. Assume anything is possible, and attempt to display content for that user in a meaningful way.

  • @alizaka1467
    @alizaka1467 4 роки тому +76

    "I was born on my birthday"
    90's crowd: Hysterical Laughter

  • @abc321meins
    @abc321meins 4 роки тому +169

    When you start on a new job and you think: hey this is a really big company, they will only use the most powerful software tools and everything will be well organized.
    And then they are like: welcome abord. First thing you got to do is to fix this excel VBA script that a trainee developed 20 years ago and now our whole company relies on.

    • @paulratterman6408
      @paulratterman6408 4 роки тому +18

      There's actually a lot of truth to this.

    • @lollo25000
      @lollo25000 4 роки тому +1

      I feel you

    • @roroguapo3
      @roroguapo3 4 роки тому +11

      i work in banking, and while we are not fixing VBA scripts, the programs we use look and function like they were built 30 years ago. it's terrible. using these terrible programs was literally my inspiration for learning code, because i thought even an idiot like me could at least build a better front end.

    • @joshbauer2486
      @joshbauer2486 4 роки тому +15

      I +1 this. I work in IT at one of the largest truck stops in the united states and half of the programs that keep our stores running were created about 25 years ago and have never been updated since deployment. My managers state that no one will touch them because of how complex they are and how interlinked they are with each other, but part of me feels like it's because of how lazy they are

    • @juliusfucik4011
      @juliusfucik4011 4 роки тому +10

      About 15 years ago I worked at a large research company. There was actually an older guy who did his machine learning in VB from an Excel sheet. It was ridiculous.
      First thing I did in the first week of working for that company, was rewrite his code into MATLAB.
      Then just a few years ago, a guy came to work for me and he rewrote my MATLAB code into Python :-(

  • @agentx6444
    @agentx6444 4 роки тому +660

    plz Bill Gates .i cannot connect t mysql in vb project help me

    • @strikerash1227
      @strikerash1227 4 роки тому +32

      Bro try to connect with Ms access 😅😅😅

    • @KarmaMan82
      @KarmaMan82 4 роки тому +16

      Get your stuff!
      Windows NT 3.x 3.51: winworldpc.com/product/windows-nt-3x/351
      Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0: winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-visual-bas/40
      Microsoft SQL Server 4.x: winworldpc.com/product/sql-server/4x

    • @trilo_boy
      @trilo_boy 4 роки тому +58

      i dont know if this is a joke or not

    • @zxcvbnm5758
      @zxcvbnm5758 4 роки тому +12

      Bill Gates: "Good luck!"

    • @evolutionkingable
      @evolutionkingable 4 роки тому +4

      Try harder!

  • @thenewtheory
    @thenewtheory 4 роки тому +72

    everyone gangsta till Clippy appears out of nowhere

  • @TitoTimTravels
    @TitoTimTravels 4 роки тому +20

    I loved Windows 3.1. I used to code in MS-DOS 1.1, so Win 3.1 was an amazing leap forward (of course they were 10 years apart)

    • @yudhistiramedia
      @yudhistiramedia 2 роки тому +1

      wow, how old are you ??

    • @TheSimoc
      @TheSimoc Рік тому

      Yep, then, by leap after leap came Windows XP, after which began the even more huge leaps backwards.

    • @gregor_man
      @gregor_man Рік тому +1

      The install package of Windows 3.1 was nine floppy disks. No updates, upgrades, patches. Required 1 MiB of RAM. That Windows could handle windows, icons, fonts, buttons and labels, lists and combos, file boxes and control dialogs. There was a text editor in there, a calculator, a calendar, some printer drivers and a solitaire game. What can Windows 11 do? Just the same. But much slower.

  • @jayhouseaddict1
    @jayhouseaddict1 4 роки тому +120

    Meanwhile Pablo Escobar was making billions on the drug trade....

    • @Esico6
      @Esico6 4 роки тому +15

      In the meanwhile Pablo is dead.

    • @valsistem
      @valsistem 4 роки тому +18

      ..and hiding most of his life...and couldnt use the money he had so he would often burn it for heat..

    • @kanakgoyal6158
      @kanakgoyal6158 4 роки тому +1

      @@valsistem lol

    • @Cashashtray7
      @Cashashtray7 3 роки тому +1

      You clearly know nothing about history bruhh you stoopid

    • @jayhouseaddict1
      @jayhouseaddict1 3 роки тому

      @@Cashashtray7 I am sure you are quite a history expert yourself! Kudos to you my friend.

  • @aaron9828
    @aaron9828 4 роки тому +19

    29 years later and a lot of engineers still use those same tools.

  • @sheepsnoopshep
    @sheepsnoopshep 4 роки тому +42

    Bill gates demonstrates visual basic, now in original aspect ratio.

  • @WernerLeonardi
    @WernerLeonardi 4 роки тому +23

    Um mar de oportunidades em 1991. Que sensação espetacular interagir com o VB nos anos 90...

  • @the_ur3an_myth
    @the_ur3an_myth 4 роки тому +111

    This shows what every programming tutorial is like
    Day 1: *Hello World*
    Also Day 1: *Making a calendar*

    • @RBLevin
      @RBLevin 4 роки тому +3

      And an image viewer ...

    • @cmaxz817
      @cmaxz817 Рік тому

      If you really have to make a calendar or other time-based app, I hope you use external library for time-keeping instead of implementing one yourself cuz that would be one hell of a torture.

  • @sirxavior1583
    @sirxavior1583 4 роки тому +14

    I'd love to see Gates do a 2021 Udemy course on Windows Forms using Visual Studio.

    • @aainn
      @aainn 3 роки тому +1

      It sooner will be a Gates tutorial on how to vaccinate yourself rather something else.

    • @alainportant6412
      @alainportant6412 2 роки тому

      @@aainn on how to eat bugs and drink toilet water

  • @kenhaley4
    @kenhaley4 4 роки тому +27

    He reportedly used to tell his employees, "Remember there are 24 hours in a day. And if that's not enough, there's always the nights."

  • @AlexanderRomanenko
    @AlexanderRomanenko 7 років тому +836

    26 years later of "progress" we have JavaScript frameworks with no IDE or UI designer that can keep up with them. Went completely backwards.

    • @leomaredcampos4941
      @leomaredcampos4941 6 років тому +48

      I don't understand your point here sir.
      but what I want you to recognize is how simple to create a program using visual basic.
      not all time I need to launch my program in net. there are times that I only needed a program just for myself.

    • @frontendprodesigner4299
      @frontendprodesigner4299 6 років тому +8

      Hhh very true because before 20 years bill gate use framework but java script spcly jquery with no user interface design.. dnt worry because javascript is not high level programing language its just for browser only

    • @edzehoo
      @edzehoo 6 років тому +63

      Well, Web UI now comprises mostly of CSS - most developers would prefer to hand-type positions, widths and heights. It lets the developer specify precise positioning for their elements. If you used an IDE for that - after doing a drag and drop - you'd most likely have to switch to code anyway and cross-check whether the code generated was what you wanted. Things like position:absolute or position:relative, and especially in complex web UI where you have many nested divs - you get more control if you hand-write it as opposed to using an IDE. An IDE is just not suited for that.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 6 років тому +4

      Alinoor Abdi learn grammar

    • @ruttelmeierindustriesltd7165
      @ruttelmeierindustriesltd7165 6 років тому +12

      The Windows 3.11 kernel is all JavaScript

  • @julio_arias_sj
    @julio_arias_sj Рік тому +5

    Que lindos recuerdos! Y Recuerdo aquellos años de secundaria en donde nos introducían a la programación con Visual Basic.

  • @MartinVaupell
    @MartinVaupell 4 роки тому +5

    still amazing, with the easy gui and interface.. love it.

  • @mariusstan352
    @mariusstan352 Рік тому +11

    VB was and is a very good product. It would be good if they created a version for non-professionals as well, based on VB6, so that anyone who studies that programming language for a few days can write a program (as VB6 or previous versions were).

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 Рік тому +1

      VB is dead.

    • @eugrus
      @eugrus Рік тому

      VBScript is included in Windows since 98 till now and of course VBA is included in MS Office. However Visual Basic and related languages are awful for introduction to programming. You can't start with an object oriented language and writing event handlers. To learn one needs a procedural language first.

  • @dennisgellert1742
    @dennisgellert1742 4 роки тому +9

    Visual Basic was such an awsome tool when it came out. Made it easy to create user interfaces.

  • @alejandroagua5813
    @alejandroagua5813 4 роки тому +281

    The good old days when programming really means programming, you code and you get what you code. These days programming means dealing with a large ecosystem, pulling packages and dependencies, changing dependencies when the first one does not work.

    • @memoriasIT
      @memoriasIT 4 роки тому +1

      Like now the first package you use works, huh?

    • @harshbarj
      @harshbarj 4 роки тому +20

      I'm happy with the changes. These days it is so simple to get something off the ground. Need a FPS character controller? There are tons of videos on how to make them. Need a weapon model? Most asset stores have free to use packages. While in some ways it was simpler to code then, in most it's actually gotten better today. I made many games on the apple IIe line back in the late 90's (our school was poor) and have to say I'd never want to go back.

    • @MrNucleosome
      @MrNucleosome 4 роки тому +38

      Programming is just a tool to realize your project. These days you need a good design for a project. 2020 programmers should be architects and engineers, not construction workers. We exernalized our knowledge of syntax and libraries to concentrate on the things, that really matter: the project itself.

    • @mulletman1705
      @mulletman1705 4 роки тому +4

      Now days I have a more advanced calender built into my watch

    • @psnbrasileira9588
      @psnbrasileira9588 4 роки тому +10

      yeah, today its a mess. several thousand of libs to do the same thing. Javascript destroyed everything.

  • @cecil8329
    @cecil8329 4 роки тому +8

    I literally have a Visual Basic exam tomorrow, is the appearance of this video an omen of... something? Wish me luck!

  • @enigmatico6209
    @enigmatico6209 4 роки тому +24

    I miss the days when a simple calendar application with a graphical user interface was an impressive thing...

    • @televisionandcheese
      @televisionandcheese Рік тому

      That isn't what was impressive, it's that he could use a graphical user interface to make this graphical user interface, and program the logic behind it with ease using such a easy to learn but capable programming language

  • @Chadderbox
    @Chadderbox 4 роки тому +17

    It is weird to see how little it has changed comparatively.

  • @TheJimSkipper
    @TheJimSkipper 4 роки тому +7

    Still the best RAD tool on the market. Thanks, Bill, everything I have today is paid for by VB.

  • @Y2Kvids
    @Y2Kvids 4 роки тому +22

    Lots of smart people in the room to understand that joke at the press of a button.

  • @theultimateshield5133
    @theultimateshield5133 4 роки тому +103

    Its 480p and I still can't see anything he's typing.

    • @soulextracter
      @soulextracter 4 роки тому +9

      I hope you're joking! Just because the video is uploaded in 480p resolution doesn't mean that the source material magically gets enhanced. If the video was shitty from the start, you will get a shitty end product no matter if you upload it as 4K..

    • @PwnUrBadCock
      @PwnUrBadCock 4 роки тому

      @@soulextracter it needs to be uploaded in 8K in order to solve this issue. Got it. Thank you.

    • @soulextracter
      @soulextracter 4 роки тому

      @@PwnUrBadCock Of course, but you won't see any real improvements until you can pump it up to 16K!

    • @PwnUrBadCock
      @PwnUrBadCock 4 роки тому

      @@soulextracter I will come back in 5 years or so, when my new 16K monitor will be delivered.

    • @sp1xa
      @sp1xa 4 роки тому

      @@soulextracter bruh no 32k is better and has more quality

  • @Stl71
    @Stl71 3 роки тому +11

    He predicted 29 years ago that developers would work a lot more to get things done...

  • @utkarshsaini5650
    @utkarshsaini5650 3 роки тому +3

    1991 - Visual basic
    2020 - Unity & Unreal basic

  • @LittleWhole
    @LittleWhole 4 роки тому +89

    May 47, 1991
    What a nice day...

    • @penthos9783
      @penthos9783 4 роки тому +8

      That's my birthday

    • @covfefox6381
      @covfefox6381 4 роки тому

      🦊 February 5, 1998... CLASSIC!!!

    • @jesuschristislordoflordsan427
      @jesuschristislordoflordsan427 4 роки тому

      right before the Devil throwed porn in our faces trough that diabolical box of hell #diabolictelevision

    • @jesuschristislordoflordsan427
      @jesuschristislordoflordsan427 4 роки тому

      @@penthos9783 word: For now starts the day of the devil, and I am going to clean all that’s filthy. Remember the gifts that I am going to give you. I know that your ears are hearing My Words more clearly. For I gave you this gift, and when you walk on water your ears are going to grow. For you will only go on the faith of My Son, the Holy Spirit and in Me; and in that way you won’t fall or drown in the water.
      prophecy.org.il/0162-prophecy/

    • @jesuschristislordoflordsan427
      @jesuschristislordoflordsan427 4 роки тому

      @Mortus Evil read chp 13 of the book of Revelation, in Gods Inspired Word the holy bible, it warns for the Devil who will (or already has?) control over ALL languages. and this was revealed to me - by the true and holy spirit i surely hope - that it deals with the translations of man.

  • @CalvinMannedUp
    @CalvinMannedUp 4 роки тому +11

    It was a few versions later than this. But this simple interface along with intellisense opened programming for me

  • @isrj01
    @isrj01 6 років тому +56

    VB helped me paying a lot of bills

    • @31redorange08
      @31redorange08 4 роки тому +18

      There's more than one Bill?

    • @Veranek
      @Veranek 4 роки тому +1

      @@31redorange08 It seems so.

    • @denverabrahams3535
      @denverabrahams3535 4 роки тому

      Thanks to thepiratebay, no need to pay Bill 😂

    • @blackmilk7930
      @blackmilk7930 4 роки тому +1

      You have to pay for using this visual studi basic really?

    • @AchmadBadra
      @AchmadBadra 4 роки тому

      bill willingly pushing you to gate

  • @ProjectPowerPoint
    @ProjectPowerPoint 4 роки тому +1

    You can still get a glimpse of old visual basic with any copy of microsoft office. Just hit alt+f11

  • @katatastrofa6136
    @katatastrofa6136 3 роки тому +6

    30 years later and his voice hasn't changed a bit.

  • @05Rudey
    @05Rudey 4 роки тому +4

    Brings me back to my first year of my Computer Science course using VB for the majority of the projects, even the lecturer sounded like Bill a bit.

  • @TomO-nx1bd
    @TomO-nx1bd 4 роки тому +27

    Back then with the original Visual Basic it was extremely easy for a novice to write a windows application. Today, languages and development frameworks are much more powerful in terms of testability and professional development but much less accessible to non-professional programmers. For a simple app you really don't need to be concerned with test driven development, SOC, design patterns, dependency injection, OOP, etc.

    • @RKingis
      @RKingis 2 роки тому +1

      I have a few different disabilities, but VB6 allowed me to write my own webserver like ten years ago. I've never published anything, but it was great. Then VB7 came out.

    • @xgui4-studios
      @xgui4-studios 3 місяці тому

      but at least we still have Windows Form...

    • @xgui4-studios
      @xgui4-studios 3 місяці тому

      ​@@RKingis VB 7 dont exist actually

    • @RKingis
      @RKingis 3 місяці тому

      @@xgui4-studios No, MS called it VB7, but it's the first .net variation.

  • @AlexeyLys
    @AlexeyLys 4 роки тому +46

    Twist plot: most of us didn't exist when the video was recorded.

    • @FlyBy2507
      @FlyBy2507 4 роки тому +1

      hey, prepubescent, do you know that world don't turn around millenials ?

    • @bukizzz
      @bukizzz 4 роки тому +3

      @@FlyBy2507 prepubescent? do u know what being a millenial means or are u playin dumb?

    • @FlyBy2507
      @FlyBy2507 4 роки тому +1

      @@bukizzz Yes, you are the same as all the other prepubescent people who think their navel is the center of the world and cannot see beyond the tip of their nose, whatever the age you have. So, prepubescent and millennials are synonyms.

    • @bukizzz
      @bukizzz 4 роки тому +1

      @@FlyBy2507 damn and they say older generations are the biggest victims of ageism...

    • @Sighman
      @Sighman 4 роки тому +1

      I was programming for a living before 1991...

  • @TedStockwell
    @TedStockwell Рік тому +3

    Alan Cooper was the father of Visual Basic, and it was cool as hell. But I think the most revolutionary thing about Visual Basic was the VBX extension mechanism, and rumor has it that was Bill's idea. I'd bet money that the value created by the "network effect" was on his mind at the time because that's how DOS made him rich. I truly loved VB, and VBXs. I made enough money writing VBXs to put a down payment on a house. Thanks Bill and Alan!

    • @pcdoodle1
      @pcdoodle1 Рік тому +1

      That's awesome, I bought VBXs because I wasn't a full time coder and needed to get stuff done, It was a great system.

  • @bayurukmanajati1224
    @bayurukmanajati1224 4 роки тому +11

    "... and it's compile it up very very quickly."
    Wow, it's even faster than my simple program in VS 2017.

  • @goldiemusic8394
    @goldiemusic8394 4 роки тому +48

    Back when programming was creative and fun engineering.

  • @LuisTorres-sf5zs
    @LuisTorres-sf5zs 4 роки тому +7

    The BEST programming language of the world !!

  • @zerotoinfinite2006
    @zerotoinfinite2006 4 роки тому +75

    2:47 - same calendar my company is using for us

    • @CreeperSlenderman
      @CreeperSlenderman 4 роки тому

      Wow your company is advanced, they literally added more days to a month so more days in a year, they can changeit

  • @andythebritton
    @andythebritton Рік тому +1

    VB kind of blew my mind when I first saw it. I was used to writing text-based apps in Turbo Pascal but had no idea how Windows apps worked. I was hooked immediately; now I could write apps for Windows.

  • @adamweb
    @adamweb 4 роки тому +12

    Directions unclear, accidentally hacked into Jurassic Park's security system.

  • @luijo633
    @luijo633 4 роки тому +643

    Imagine he was doing that presentation, pretty chill and everything, and suddendly the system autoreboots and he has to wait an hour for updates to get done
    Edit: Down in the reply section is( as you can imagine ) a bunch of cringy r/woosh stuff, if you got the joke just keep scrolling and be happy, just ignore them

    • @NexXxus86
      @NexXxus86 4 роки тому +16

      Only on Windows 10 xD Windows 3.1 required manual upgrades over floppy disks.

    • @narm455
      @narm455 4 роки тому +4

      You can stop updite on windows 10

    • @thebasketballhistorian3291
      @thebasketballhistorian3291 4 роки тому +3

      @@NexXxus86 Obvious Win 10 joke. =)

    • @luijo633
      @luijo633 4 роки тому +3

      @@thebasketballhistorian3291 Finally someone that actually understands W10 humor

    • @MrNucleosome
      @MrNucleosome 4 роки тому +1

      @Troy Krentz Yes. Yes, you can.

  • @harshbarj
    @harshbarj 4 роки тому +16

    Back when it cost thousands to get into programming. Today you can make high end 3d games for free! How we have improved.

    • @elzabbul
      @elzabbul 4 роки тому +2

      But you’re stuck with JavaScript and well half of the Internet still works on PHP ;)

    • @harshbarj
      @harshbarj 4 роки тому +2

      @@elzabbul I myself dislike Javascript. Mostly because it used to be a client side scripting language. PHP however was server side, so it was invisible to your visitors. I have not touched PHP though since php3/4. Really should get back into it given my knowledge of c++ / c#.

    • @tradersendeavors
      @tradersendeavors 4 роки тому +1

      Not really you just have to be smart and you can learn programming unproperly documented for free

    • @matth23e2
      @matth23e2 4 роки тому

      @@tradersendeavors Yea but it was harder back then, now we have so many tutorials and resources lol

    • @tradersendeavors
      @tradersendeavors 4 роки тому +1

      @@matth23e2 yeah i know back then programming was more honorable and just to print something you needed alot of code because it was low level now its just learn programming in one month shit

  • @puccademendar5992
    @puccademendar5992 4 роки тому +259

    This guy going to be richest person in the world one day!

  • @cyanrazorCel
    @cyanrazorCel 3 роки тому

    So pleasing to see any video of anything involving 90s computers.
    People under the age of 18 will never understand

  • @vertimaron
    @vertimaron Рік тому +2

    A great tribute to the pioneers who laid the foundation of computer science

  • @Reddblue
    @Reddblue 4 роки тому +190

    This guy sounds smart, he should mass produce operating systems for computers

    • @SamiShah2004
      @SamiShah2004 4 роки тому +2

      Someone's gonna get whooshed, I can feel it.

    • @nuspas
      @nuspas 4 роки тому +7

      holy shit, how many of these comments do you guys wanna post? they aren't even creative

    • @alfredomulleretxeberria4239
      @alfredomulleretxeberria4239 4 роки тому

      @@pythonisa79 You gotta go back.

    • @othmandont9355
      @othmandont9355 4 роки тому +3

      This is not funny.

    • @saw71466
      @saw71466 4 роки тому

      lol

  • @thundaga4005
    @thundaga4005 4 роки тому +19

    I doubt this will catch on

  • @suavesoft
    @suavesoft 6 років тому +9

    Long live Classic VB! .NOT sucks!!

  • @judewestburner
    @judewestburner Рік тому +1

    For all folk that say VB is a toy language, if you've gone to a bank, a receptionist in a hotel, an airport, and a million other scenarios chances are the application servicing that request was a VB application.

  • @876Abb
    @876Abb 4 роки тому

    You didn't search for this, it was actually recommended to you! Thank You UA-cam

  • @aakarshpratap3200
    @aakarshpratap3200 4 роки тому +5

    Imagine it still being useful today after almost 30 years (especially excel macros)

  • @francescopolo2621
    @francescopolo2621 Рік тому +3

    You can love VB or hate it, but there’s no doubt it really changed software developing process.

  • @Niphrentil
    @Niphrentil 3 роки тому +16

    2020 and I still use Visual Basic to make simple little apps for windows!!

  • @kingtrav
    @kingtrav 4 роки тому +1

    Loved Visual Basic back in the day. I used to make programs that worked on AOL in VB4 back when I was 13 or so

  • @mattzenuka
    @mattzenuka 2 роки тому +2

    I remember when I was a child I always wanted to learn how to use macros, but I didn't have internet or any books. In my teens the first cyber cafes opened in my city and since then I started to learn many things.

  • @Michael-London
    @Michael-London 4 роки тому +14

    I wish the WPF designer responded as quick as the VB designer.

    • @PhilipAlexanderHassialis
      @PhilipAlexanderHassialis 4 роки тому +2

      Well everything was written in C, some C++ and some secret Assembly sauce. Of course it was fast. Today if you remove e.g. Edge / Cortana from the machine (see e.g. Ameliorated Win 10), suddenly you cannot search in the File Explorer :P

  • @leomaredcampos4941
    @leomaredcampos4941 6 років тому +52

    This is my favorite product of Microsoft.

    • @shady4tv
      @shady4tv 4 роки тому +6

      @Derp Inshmurtz
      no... Microsoft did not create C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup did.
      "more powerful" is completely relative to the goals of the applications, no language is "more powerful" than any other (good luck trying to write a webapp in C++)
      Microsoft created C# which is good for Windows Applications but has a tough time if you want to scale to Linux or MacOS.

    • @davidchristenes9062
      @davidchristenes9062 4 роки тому +3

      @@shady4tv From the desktop perspective... yes, for games(unity) and web development is just fine on Linux, don't know about Mac.
      I'm actually work with C# and I'm a Linux user, .Net core is for sure one of the best frameworks out there.

    • @diegocantelli
      @diegocantelli 4 роки тому +2

      madd_step no, c# is pretty ok in Linux or macos. There’s a lot of companys using it...

    • @OpenGL4ever
      @OpenGL4ever 4 роки тому +1

      This product does make you more productive. You will at least have 47 days per month for work.

    • @bayurukmanajati1224
      @bayurukmanajati1224 4 роки тому

      Yo man, I never buy those calendar.
      It will me do more jobs...

  • @sirius4k
    @sirius4k 4 роки тому +13

    Some day, a personal computer will use more than 1GB of memory! You heard it here first, people!

    • @mrdoggy8801
      @mrdoggy8801 4 роки тому

      @M87 Star That's a lot of storage

  • @COTG666
    @COTG666 Рік тому +2

    This revolutionized how software was developed. It's still the paradigm today that development tools use.

    • @jcfawerd
      @jcfawerd Рік тому

      NeXT did that a long time ago, but indeed Microsoft makes it mainstream

  • @happyman_smiling
    @happyman_smiling 3 роки тому +1

    After 12 years they removed support for visual basic replacing it with vb .net .Many vb guys were in trouble.

  • @hajijohn1
    @hajijohn1 Рік тому +3

    His professor (Papadimitriou) true story :"Two years later, I called to tell him our paper had been accepted to a fine math journal. He sounded eminently disinterested. He had moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: 'Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.'"

  • @ewtwetrwerwteet
    @ewtwetrwerwteet 5 років тому +6

    Fast forward almost 3 decades and companies are literally still building basic shit like this reinventing the wheel, only with nicer pictures

  • @yankleber
    @yankleber 4 роки тому +4

    30 years later VB still represents.

  • @DF-og1gz
    @DF-og1gz 2 роки тому +2

    A Commodore 64, with its built in Microsoft Basic, was the only computer I could afford prior to Windows 3.1. So Visual Basic was a no brainer for me to learn. I started with version 3, and certified in versions 4, 5 and 6.

  • @Jay1830
    @Jay1830 7 місяців тому +1

    Took me 7 years to get this in my recomandations

  • @DUDEiTHINKIMNUDE
    @DUDEiTHINKIMNUDE 4 роки тому +20

    Bill looked like an old guy his entire life😂

    • @davidaustin6962
      @davidaustin6962 4 роки тому +4

      funny. I always thought he looked like a teenager, even now although with gray hair and wrinkles. I guess he just hasn't changed, so he looks like he looked when you first learned about him.

    • @thatkindofboi9955
      @thatkindofboi9955 3 роки тому

      @@davidaustin6962 tbh tbh me too?
      I actually always thought he looks 20 years younger than his actual age ? lmfao

  • @teolcd
    @teolcd 4 роки тому +16

    Windows 10: You need to join Insiders first

  • @phee3D
    @phee3D 4 роки тому +3

    hey bill, thanks for the tutorial.
    I'm getting a syntax error on line 2 of the plan b script, can you help me fix it? thanks

  • @CS-yw4vm
    @CS-yw4vm Рік тому +1

    So the introduction of security holes :'D

  • @odel_leal
    @odel_leal 4 роки тому +3

    Que bonito ver como ha evolucionado la tecnología a lo largo de estos casi 30 años. Claro VisualBasic (en el caso de VBA) que es el que he usado más, si se ha quedado un toque en el pasado.

  • @timsecond
    @timsecond 4 роки тому +14

    *_Hi, everyone. I'm Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft_*

  • @sobalsoft
    @sobalsoft 4 роки тому +3

    I predict this guy will one day get very far... impressive tech!

  • @dakyion
    @dakyion 4 роки тому +12

    Programming was way easier than today!
    After 5 years from entering the programming world, til now I don't know how to make a GUI with Java
    Or any other language
    The only language that have offered me time is C# !
    Yeah a Microsoft product so ...

    • @ЏонМастерман
      @ЏонМастерман 4 роки тому +2

      Java Swing is atrocious, I've heard Java FX is a bit friendlier, but still no where near as easy as this presented here.

    • @harshbarj
      @harshbarj 4 роки тому

      Making a GUI is actually not that hard. I made quite a few using applesoft basic, qbasic, and c++. Things were simpler then because you were more limited. Libraries had fewer functions. If you wanted to find the largest item in an array, you had to actually iterate through that array looking for it. Today you just do a array.Max(); in c# . So you have more to learn, but what we have is FAR more powerful.

    • @abhiverma2954
      @abhiverma2954 4 роки тому +1

      You can also use java scene builder it is freely available and easy to use

    • @massimo79mmm
      @massimo79mmm 4 роки тому

      I Think Java swing is the worst thing ever made

    • @MrNucleosome
      @MrNucleosome 4 роки тому

      What's wrong with C#?

  • @urbaneplanner
    @urbaneplanner Рік тому +2

    Looks very much like it still does today! Still a cool feature especially of excel that I use a lot

  • @digimikeh
    @digimikeh 3 роки тому

    the best visual basic tutorial ever made.. thanks .. where is part 2?