Steve Jobs

By sinacarle

  • Birth

    Steven Paul is born in San Francisco, CA, soon to be adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.

  • Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak

    Steve and Woz build and sell illegally blue boxes to Berkeley students.

  • Drops out of college

    Fall: Steve spends one semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out.

  • Apple is born

    Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobs' garage, and sell them to hobbyists.

  • IBM and Apple

    IBM launches the IBM PC, the biggest threat to Apple's future.

  • Bye Bye Apple

    Steve Jobs resigns from Apple. Apple announces it will sue Steve's future company, NeXT.

  • Mona Simpson

    Steve discovers his biological mother, novelist Mona Simpson.

  • Pixar and Disney

    Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film.

  • Cancer

    Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
    August 2004: He has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery.

  • iTunes

    "The day hell froze over": Steve Jobs introduces iTunes for Windows.