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The Birth of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born in San Franciso on February 24th, 1955 -
The Jobs' family are movin'
The Jobs' family move to Mountain View from San Franciso -
First Job
At 13, Steve Jobs, gets called up by Bill Hewlett and gets a summer job at the HP factory -
Jobs meets Wozniak
Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, who is 5 years older than him, through a mutual friend of his. They both share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks -
Reed College, Oregon
Steve spends the fall semester at Reed College in Oregon, then he drops out. He stayed on campus and attended the classes that interested him for a while, then he moved to a hippie commune -
The Early Apple 1
Woz and Jobs showed the early Apple 1 board at the Homebrew Computer Club -
Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne own Apple
Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne -
Assembling Apple 1 computers
Jobs and Wozniak start assembling Apple 1 computers in the Jobs' garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop -
Apple 2
The Apple 2 becomes the first mass-market personal computer, with impressive sales around the U.S. Apple becomes a symbol of the personal computing revolution -
Apple going public
Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million -
Canon invests in NeXT
Canon invests $100 million in NeXT, now valued at $600 million -
Jobs marries Powell
Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of steve's old zen guru Kobin Chino, Laurene is already pregnant at this time -
Pixar and Disney collabrate
Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer animated feature film -
Reed Paul Jobs is born
Laurene gives birth to Steve's first son, Reed Paul Jobs -
Paul Jobs' death
Paul Jobs had passed away -
Toy Story is released
One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs' worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple -
Erin Siena Jobs is born
Laurene gives birth to Erin Siena Jobs, her second child with Steve -
A Regular Guy
Steve's biologial sister Mona Simpson publishes her third novel, A Regular Guy, whose main character Tom Owens is largely based on Steve -
Apple's new board
Jobs introduces Apple's new board of directors and a truce with Microsoft at Macworld in Boston -
Eve Jobs
Laurene and Steve's youngest daughter, Eve Jobs, is born. -
Jobs tumor surgery
Steve Jobs finally has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery -
New Apple products are being released
At Macworld in San Franciso, Steve Jobs unveils Apple's productivity suite iWork, the new Mac mini, and the iPod shuffle, the cheapest iPod ever at $49 -
A second campus in Cupertino
Steve Jobs announces Apple's intention to erect a second campus in Cupertino -
iPhone is announced
Apple announces it will open the iPhone platform to outside developers with the App Store. VC fund KPCB starts iFund to invest in the new mobile app economy that they (rightly) believe will sprout from it -
Liver transplant
Jobs recieves a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he got the surgery -
iPad 2 is revealed
Despite his medical leave, Steve Jobs takes the stage to unveil the new iPad 2 -
The death of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family -
After his passing...
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
