What are trying to say? That VB6 wasn't available in 1998 for download? Heck it was!
At work we had T1 and those who needed at home would download it over night - it may get disconnected but you could resume from the point it stoped.
And I still don't see any point in your post.
The post was in response to his saying he has broadband, as opposed to my previous post saying that downloading was not a viable option when the vast majority of people had 56K back in 1996, which when calculated would have been 86 hours on a GOOD telephone line.