[dragonwriter]

AFAICT, what displaced plain VB for much of its commercially-significant use wasn't VB.NET, or anything web-based, but -- and this was happening when VB was still current -- Excel (with VBScript), which was and is in many ways superior to VB as a visual rapid-application-development platform because you could do more without context-shifting out of the visual paradigm.

Of course, VB programmers may look down on Excel the same way lots of other programmers looked down on VB.