{"id":5056,"date":"2019-07-13T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:53:24","slug":"25-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/2019\/25-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        25 Years Later\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>In the mid 90s, around the time the Windows 95 operating system hit the market, high school student Rohit Saxena stood face to face with Bill Gates and handed him a paper copy of his resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gates was in Ottawa to meet with Prime Minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien, and made a special trip to Carleton University to check out the Virtual Ventures summer camp. Rohit* was a camp volunteer at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sticks out as one of his most memorable moments with the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/engineering-design\/story\/vv-25-years-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Full Story Here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 90s, around the time the Windows 95 operating system hit the market, high school student Rohit Saxena stood face to face with Bill Gates and handed him a paper copy of his resume. Gates was in Ottawa to meet with Prime Minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien, and made a special trip to Carleton University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/vv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}