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1955
Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco -
1976
Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. -
1979
Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). -
1986
he helped to develop the visual effects industry when he funded the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986 -
1997
Jobs became CEO of Apple in 1997, following his company's acquisition of NeXT -
1997
He worked closely with designer Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications, beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign and leading to the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. -
2001
In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with the completely new Mac OS X, based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time -
2003
Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003. -
2011
He died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor at age 56 on October 5, 2011.