Millenial Face-Off
"About a year ago I started hearing about how computers around the world were going to crash," Gonsalves says. "Now, with my computer science background, I thought, that is just plain wrong."
"Most personal computers will be just fine...Nothing is going to crash," he adds.
Gonsalves and Trembaly had met during the summer of 1986 when Gonsalves, a college student, was dating one of Trembaly's female roommates.
"Rob was about the only person who would indulge in conversation about computers with me. He's made me a computer-aware person now,"
Trembaly says.
The two got a chance to work together in November 1998. Trembaly was talking to a friend who worked for First Night Boston, the city's annual New Year's celebration. The friend remarked that the organization was looking for First Night project submissions.
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