I have a fond place for QBasic. I started to teach myself programming (as a 14 year old in the 90s) with GW Basic because my dad's older computer had disks and a manual. I quickly learned that if I upgraded to DOS 5 I could get QBasic and I did so along with a book from the library on QBasic programming. I tore into that book. I think I renewed by checkout as many times as they let me. I never stopped programming everyday from that day until well into adulthood. Now I have had some days where I haven't programmed in the last 25 years. QBasic was a life changing moment for me.
I'm the same.
QBasic, GW Basic, Commodore 64, those were the big ones for me as a kid.
Without them, I probably wouldn't be a programmer today.