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I don't know. Some of the things I could do with a pirated copy of VB5 as a 14 year old would take me 10x as long to do on the web even using modern tools which I'm reasonably familiar with.

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Hmm, your Vb5 apps were responsive? Mine definitely weren't - but it's fairly easy with Flexbox/Grid.

But yeah, having such a nice GUI designer would be awesome - I miss Delphi a lot, and the WinForms designer was good too. Now finally Flexbox/Grid have support on all major browsers so perhaps we could get this part of the workflow back.

Haha, mobile phones came with snake at the time. No one expected to be browsing the internet on them (which had barely passed into mainstream use). I remember around the time my dad's friend coming over with his work laptop (a rare thing at the time) to show us "the internet". Everyone just assumed a lowest common denominator resolution and got on with it!

My pet peeve was not being able to use 2 windows next to each other on my 1280x1024 screen because the UIs assumed full screen usage.

Phones - for sure, that's a modern development. But it's been more than a decade now, there are adult people who don't remember world without iPhones and Androids! Crazy... Myself, I started on Windows 98, but it's Windows XP (and Delphi) that defines my childhood.

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