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Steven P. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California.
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He graduated high school then enrolled in Reed College, in Portland and dropped out later.
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Then he returned home and started to go to meetings at the Homebrew Computer Club. There he met Steve Wozniak.
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Steven P. Jobs and Steven Wazniak create apple computers. In his family garage the apple was born.
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Jobs and Wazniak entered some computers, which were assembled, from the Apple Computer Company. The computers name Apple 1.
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1 year later the Apple 2 is released.
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VisiCalc the first spreadsheet program was released running on an Apple 2 computer.
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Apple 3 is released with less than expected success. In the same year Apple Computer Co. became a publicly traded company to the stock market. On the first day of trading the market value was $1.2 billion.
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The Lisa Computer, named after jobs daughter, is released.
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Macintosh is released and is the first to use a graphical user interface instead of a command line.
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Job’s has resigned as Apple’s CEO and started a software company called NeXT, Inc. The same year he purchased an animation company from George Lucas. The animation company became Pixar Animation Studios.
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The first iMac is released.
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The Power Mac G4 is released.
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The iTunes covers the evolution of applications and the refinement of a simple mp3 or a music player of some sort to a control center for many media types.
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Thats it