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Steve Jobs' life

  • The Birth of Steve Jobs

    The Birth of Steve Jobs
    Steve Jobs was born in San Franciso on February 24th, 1955
  • The Jobs' family are movin'

    The Jobs' family are movin'
    The Jobs' family move to Mountain View from San Franciso
  • First Job

    First Job
    At 13, Steve Jobs, gets called up by Bill Hewlett and gets a summer job at the HP factory
  • Jobs meets Wozniak

    Jobs meets Wozniak
    Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, who is 5 years older than him, through a mutual friend of his. They both share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks
  • Reed College, Oregon

    Reed College, Oregon
    Steve spends the fall semester at Reed College in Oregon, then he drops out. He stayed on campus and attended the classes that interested him for a while, then he moved to a hippie commune
  • The Early Apple 1

    The Early Apple 1
    Woz and Jobs showed the early Apple 1 board at the Homebrew Computer Club
  • Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne own Apple

    Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne own Apple
    Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne
  • Assembling Apple 1 computers

    Assembling Apple 1 computers
    Jobs and Wozniak start assembling Apple 1 computers in the Jobs' garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop
  • Apple 2

    Apple 2
    The Apple 2 becomes the first mass-market personal computer, with impressive sales around the U.S. Apple becomes a symbol of the personal computing revolution
  • Apple going public

    Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million
  • Canon invests in NeXT

    Canon invests $100 million in NeXT, now valued at $600 million
  • Jobs marries Powell

    Jobs marries Powell
    Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of steve's old zen guru Kobin Chino, Laurene is already pregnant at this time
  • Pixar and Disney collabrate

    Pixar and Disney collabrate
    Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer animated feature film
  • Reed Paul Jobs is born

    Laurene gives birth to Steve's first son, Reed Paul Jobs
  • Paul Jobs' death

    Paul Jobs had passed away
  • Toy Story is released

    Toy Story is released
    One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs' worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple
  • Erin Siena Jobs is born

    Laurene gives birth to Erin Siena Jobs, her second child with Steve
  • A Regular Guy

    A Regular Guy
    Steve's biologial sister Mona Simpson publishes her third novel, A Regular Guy, whose main character Tom Owens is largely based on Steve
  • Apple's new board

    Jobs introduces Apple's new board of directors and a truce with Microsoft at Macworld in Boston
  • Eve Jobs

    Laurene and Steve's youngest daughter, Eve Jobs, is born.
  • Jobs tumor surgery

    Steve Jobs finally has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery
  • New Apple products are being released

    New Apple products are being released
    At Macworld in San Franciso, Steve Jobs unveils Apple's productivity suite iWork, the new Mac mini, and the iPod shuffle, the cheapest iPod ever at $49
  • A second campus in Cupertino

    Steve Jobs announces Apple's intention to erect a second campus in Cupertino
  • iPhone is announced

    iPhone is announced
    Apple announces it will open the iPhone platform to outside developers with the App Store. VC fund KPCB starts iFund to invest in the new mobile app economy that they (rightly) believe will sprout from it
  • Liver transplant

    Jobs recieves a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he got the surgery
  • iPad 2 is revealed

    iPad 2 is revealed
    Despite his medical leave, Steve Jobs takes the stage to unveil the new iPad 2
  • The death of Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family
  • After his passing...

    After two years of work, and forty interviews with Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson publishes his authorized biography of the Apple and Pixar co-founder, simply named Steve Jobs