-
1955-1985 Youth & Apple's early years
-
steves jobs childhood with adopted parents
-
Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble. He is quickly adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs
-
The Jobs family moves from San Francisco to Mountain View, a suburban town in Santa Clara county, more famous under the name Silicon Valley
-
13-year-old Steve Jobs calls up Bill Hewlett and gets a summer job at the HP factory
-
Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks
-
Steve and Woz build and illegally sell 'blue boxes' that allow to make phone calls for free
-
Steve spends the fall semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out. He will stay on campus and attend the classes that interest him for a while, then move to a hippie commune
-
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
-
steve jobs sold his first computer kit in 1975
-
After Wozniak showed it to Jobs, who suggested that they sell it, they and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs's Los Altos home on Crist Drive
-
received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula
-
1976, Wozniak and steve invented the Apple I computer.
-
In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple II at the West Coast Computer Faire. It was the first consumer product sold by Apple Computer and was one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products
-
As Jobs and Apple became more successful, his relationship with Brennan grew more complex. In 1977, with the success of Apple now a part of their relationship, Brennan, Daniel Kottke, and Jobs moved into a house near to the Apple office in Cupertino.
-
Steve's ex-girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan gives birth to their daugher Lisa. Steve refuses to acknowledge he is the father
-
Jobs was worth a million dollars when he was 23 (1978), 10 million when he was 24, and over 100 million when he was 25. He was also one of the youngest "people ever to make the Forbes list of the nation's richest people
-
Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million
-
In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in the two top floors of The San Remo, a Manhattan building with a politically progressive reputation. Although he never lived there,he spent years renovating it with the help of I. M. Pei. In 2003, he sold it to U2 singer Bono.
-
Alan Kay first introduces the Pixar team to Steve Jobs
-
1986-1996 NeXT Pixar and wilderness
-
Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar
-
Steve's father, Paul Jobs, dies
-
steve and apple start to rebuild and get bigger
-
Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California
-
Apple starts its popular 'Switch' campaign with ads picturing PC users that switched to the Mac
-
Steve Jobs introduces the first Windows-compatible iPods at Macworld NY
-
Steve Jobs unveils the Power Mac G5, the world’s fastest computer, at WWDC
-
Steve unveils the iPod mini and the iLife suite at Macworld. The iPod mini will soon become the world's best-selling MP3 player and truly establish Apple as a consumer electronics powerhouse
-
2005-2011 The Big Apple, apple strts to go big
-
At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs unveils Apple's productivity suite iWork, the new Mac mini, and the iPod shuffle, the cheapest iPod ever at $49
-
Steve Jobs is inducted in the California Hall of Fame by Gov. Schwartzenegger
-
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
-
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
-
Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family
-
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