steve job
1955-2011
Timeline
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.
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.
Mar 1976
Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club.
28 Aug 1976
Steve Jobs and Woz show off the Apple I at the Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City.
1979
At Apple, work starts on the Apple III and the Lisa, while Jef Raskin begins the Macintosh project.
May 1980
Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop.
Jan 1983
Launch of the Lisa computer. The Lisa team later merges with the Mac team under Steve Jobs' 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.
Dec 1996
Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern OS, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named informal advisor to Apple CEO Gil Amelio.
6 May 1998
Steve Jobs introduces Apple's revolutionary iMac at the Flint Center auditorium in Cupertino.
5 Oct 1999
Introduction of the iMac DV and of iMovie, the first of Apple's iDigital Hub' apps.
28 Apr 2003
Apple opens the revolutionary online iTunes Music Store in the U.S.
15 Jan 2008
Steve Jobs introduces MacBook Air, the world's thinnest notebook.
24 Aug 2011
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple. Tim Cook becomes Apple CEO.
5 Oct 2011
Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family.