VBScript

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1995)

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shiny

bob

jdunck

greyfade

bittercoder

MarkofCain

rrainey

jefftriplett

vitaliyf

Bryan

adamv

PaulM

bmaxwell

kratorius

CerealBoy

pydanny

mattimck

binarydud

stephen_mcd

ShawnMilo

adders

westonruter

tartley

adurdin

Rgoodermote

lambacck

pax

Ben

alecperkins

gsiegman

gniero

cdeblois

sjaekel

Matt

shiny - 30 years

bob - 3 years

jdunck - 5 years

greyfade - 16 years

bittercoder - 28 years

MarkofCain - 28 years

rrainey - 27 years

jefftriplett - 5 years

vitaliyf - 1 years

Bryan - 2 years

adamv - 4 years

PaulM - 4 years

bmaxwell - 26 years

kratorius - 2 years

CerealBoy - 5 years

pydanny - 1 years

mattimck - 3 years

binarydud - 1 years

stephen_mcd - 7 years

ShawnMilo - 7 years

adders - 22 years

westonruter - 3 years

tartley - 3 years

adurdin - 3 years

Rgoodermote - 2 years

lambacck - 20 years

pax - 4 years

Ben - 5 years

alecperkins - 5 years

gsiegman - 19 years

gniero - 19 years

cdeblois - 3 years

sjaekel - 2 years

Matt - 15 years

shiny

1995–

My mispent teenage years, and a recurring holiday job making intranet webpages to display weather modelling data for a hydro electric scheme.

bob

1996–1998

jdunck

1996–2000

When I decided to move on from MCI, it was kind of in a hurry -- my bills were suddenly higher than an hour-and-rate-limited co-op position could support. But I had something going for me -- the web. I got a contracting job at Ernst & Young, using VBScript 1.0 and this new fangled ActiveX (shipping in IE 3.0, 1996). We used VBScript on the server and client. A terrible language. I tried to explain that we could use JavaScript instead, but VBScript was the ASP default, and besides, they'd just learned VBScript.... Soon enough, it was time to move on to MicroGrafx (around 1998). Since I'd been doing web stuff for 2 years and had client-side down at that point, I landed a job there, helping with their eCommerce site and their personalized electronic greeting cards (Flash-based). eCommerce became my career for a while...

bittercoder

1997–

Started learning VBScript/VBA while studying. Then moved onto commercial ASP classic development (mostly building content management sites) - can't say I enjoyed the technology. Still on the odd occasion have to support ASP classic code (unfortunately) - would be nice to put and end year on this language!

greyfade

1997–2012

MarkofCain

1997–

jefftriplett

1998–2002

I first learned VBScript so I could script video games then later I used VBA. Years later, I was cursed to use this language for three years while I worked in an ASP shop.

vitaliyf

1998

Bryan

1998–1999

<% %> was my -first interaction- with a programming language. FrontPage used it through ASP, so I wanted to try it out (and Feel Cool™). Didn't get a bit of it.

adamv

1998–2001

Let us never speak of this again.

1998–2001

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1999–2000

1999–2003

Once had a worm in VBS running around High School library, still going afaik

bmaxwell

1999–

mattimck

2000–2002

pydanny

2000

I worked with VBScript in the browser for a few months at Battelle. I was actually pleasantly surprised at how much easier it was to use than JavaScript. In retrospect it was easier to use because I did not fully understand JavaScript at that time.

stephen_mcd

2001–2007

Used with ASP for websites and WSH for Windows automation

binarydud

2001

ShawnMilo

2002–2008

First wrote VBScript when I moved to ASP, and last used it in Excel. I'd rather not talk (or think) about those days or that code.

westonruter

2003–2005

A scorn upon mankind. Forced to use with Classic ASP, although I'd try to use JScript whenever possible.

adders