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In this chapter, I provided a quick history and overview of events and notifications. Many people who develop “event-based“ programs are unaware of the extensive amount of work and the number of people involved in making events what they are today. Contrary to popular belief, events were not invented by Microsoft for Visual Basic back in the early 1990s. However, Visual Basic is probably the first product that opened up the world of event-based programming to the masses. The adoption of the event-based model in Visual Basic is what made that product so much easier to work with, compared to other products and technologies of the day.
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