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Steve Wozniak

  • Attend/Drop-out of multiple universities

    Attend/Drop-out of multiple universities
    He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder for one year (1968–69) before dropping out. Following his return to California, he attended a local community college and then the University of California, Berkeley, which he also later drop out.
  • Designed the Bluebox

    Designed the Bluebox
    A device for phreaking (hacking into the telephone network without paying for long-distance calls) that he and Jobs, a student at his old high school whom he met about this time, began selling to other students.
  • Employment at Hewlett-Packard Company

    Employment at Hewlett-Packard Company
    While working as an engineering intern at Hewlett-Packard, Wozniak designed his own microcomputer in 1976 using the new microprocessor, but the company was not interested in developing his design so he later retired from it to start a company with Steve Jobs.
  • Developed the Apple I prototype

    Developed the Apple I prototype
    The prototype was developed and presented to the Homebrew computer club. Which is an 8-bit motherboard-only personal computer designed by Steve Wozniak and later released by the Apple Computer Company.
  • Creating the Apple company

    Creating the Apple company
    At the request of Markkula, who funded the pair, Wozniak resigned from his job at HP and became the vice president in charge of research and development at Apple with Steve Jobs.
  • Creation of the Apple II

    Creation of the Apple II
    Which is the first personal computer with the ability to display color graphics, and BASIC programming language built in.
  • Apple going public

    Apple going public
    Apple went public to instant and significant financial profitability, making Jobs and Wozniak both millionaires.
  • Airplane crashed

    Airplane crashed
    This left him with temporary traumatic amnesia (unable to form new long-term memories), and he was forced to go on a sabbatical. This also marks a monumental point in his life, completely changing his view on life after recovering from his amnesia.
  • Awarded National Medal of Technology

    Awarded National Medal of Technology
    by U.S. Pres. Ronald W. Reagan
  • Departure from Apple

    Departure from Apple
    Believing Apple to be hindering him, Wozniak depart the company, sold all his stock and start his new chapter of life.
  • Developed the first programmable universal remote control

    Developed the first programmable universal remote control
    The CORE generic universal remote control is able to learn, or record, IR signal patterns from other remote controls. It has an LCD, a 4-bit and an 8-bit 6502-based microprocessor, and 16 keys plus a few more control buttons.
  • Founded Electronic Frontier Foundation

    Founded Electronic Frontier Foundation
    Wozniak providing some of the organization's initial funding and serving on its founding Board of Directors.
  • Became the chief scientist at Fusion-Io

    Became the chief scientist at Fusion-Io
  • Founded Woz U

    Founded Woz U
    An online educational technology service for independent students and employees. As of December 2018, Woz U was licensed as a school with the Arizona state board.
  • Founded EFFORCE

    Founded EFFORCE
    A business that allows companies to fund energy efficiency projects through investing in a cryptocurrency token using blockchain technology.