Steve Jobs
"I want to put a ding in the universe"
- 24 Feb 1955 - Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble. He is quickly adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs
- Summer 1968 - 13-year-old Steve Jobs calls up Bill Hewlett and gets a summer job at the HP factory
- 1969 - Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks
- 1974 - Steve gets his first job at video game maker Atari, and later makes a trip to India to 'seek enlightenment' with his college friend Dan Kottke
- Mar 1976 - Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club
- 1 Apr 1976 - Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne
- 1978 - The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer, with impressive sales around the US. Apple becomes a symbol of the personal computing revolution
- Dec 1979 - Steve Jobs is shown the first working graphical user interface at Xerox PARC
- 12 Dec 1980 - Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million
- Jan 1983 - Launch of the Lisa computer. The Lisa team later merges with the Mac team under Steve Jobs's leadership
- 8 Apr 1983 - PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple's CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months
- 17 Sep 1985 - Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple. Apple announces it will sue NeXT
- - Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar
- 1986 - Steve's mother Clara dies. A couple months later, Steve discovers his biological mother Joanne and his sister, novelist Mona Simpson. They will become close friends
- Winter 1988 - Pixar launches its new computer graphics workstation, the Pixar Image Computer II, and starts working on the RenderMan computer animation software
- May 1991 - Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film
- 1992 - NeXT COO Peter Van Cuylenburg betrays Steve Jobs by trying to have the company bought by its giant competitor Sun. Sun CEO Scott McNealy warns Steve Jobs instead
- Mar 1993 - Steve's father, Paul Jobs, dies
- 29 Nov 1995 - One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs's worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple
- Dec 1996 - Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named "informal adviser" to Apple CEO Gil Amelio
- Jul 1997 - Gil Amelio is ousted by the Apple Board of directors after a disastrous quarter. Steve Jobs is named interim CEO in his place and installs his NeXT executive team at the top of Apple
- Fall 1997 - Apple starts its 'Think Different' campaign to restore its damaged brand image. The new slogan will quickly enter popular culture and define the company for the next five years
- 6 May 1998 - Steve Jobs introduces Apple's revolutionary iMac at the Flint Center auditorium in Cupertino, 14 years after he had introduced the Macintosh at that same place
- 9 Jan 2001 - Steve Jobs unveils Appleās Digital Hub Strategy at Macworld: the Mac is to become the center of consumers' emerging digital lifestyles
- 23 Oct 2001 - After an 8-month crash development program, Steve Jobs unveils iPod at a small media event on the company's campus. He has no idea how it will tranform Apple
- 28 Apr 2003 - Apple opens the revolutionary online iTunes Music Store in the US, after negotiating landmark deals with all major music labels
- Fall 2003 - Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but stubbornly refuses any modern medical treatment for months. He tries alternative diets instead
- 12 Jun 2005 - Steve Jobs makes a memorable commencement speech at Stanford University. History will remember its closing remarks, Steve's advice to the young students: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish', a quote from the last page of the Whole Earth Catalogue from his youth
- 9 Jan 2007 - In his most memorable keynote presentation ever, at Macworld 2007, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone and its revolutionary touch-screen interface. He also introduces Apple TV and announces the company's name change from Apple Computer Inc. to Apple Inc. to better reflect its new nature
- 5 Dec 2007 - Steve Jobs is inducted in the California Hall of Fame by Gov. Schwartzenegger
- Aug 2008 - The SEC clears Steve Jobs of any responsibilities in the options backdating scandal
- Apr 2009 - Steve receives a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he got the surgery
- 27 Jan 2010 - After months of wild rumors, Steve Jobs unveils iPad, 'the biggest thing Apple's ever done'. The tablet runs the same operating system as iPhone
- 17 Jan 2011 - Jobs surprises the world by announcing his new medical leave of absence, without any end d
- 6 Jun 2011 - At his last keynote at WWDC 2011, a freil Steve Jobs unveils Apple's cloud offering, iCloud, the foundation for the next decade of Apple products
- 24 Aug 2011 - Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, with the words 'I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.' Tim Cook becomes Apple CEO
- 5 Oct 2011 - Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family
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