I loved VB6. Programming games in it using DirectX, in my cracked copy of VB6 when I was 13 was one of the first forays into real programming. I still remember being super confused about double-buffering way back when; my initial game programming in VB started with picking up key events and moving an image around, but it was blurry and laggy, afterimages galore and impossibly to composite correctly. That's when I found DirectX. Not long after I moved into working with web technologies, and the rest is (my) history.