Steve Jobs
- Feb 1955 -Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble. He is quickly adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs
- 1969 -Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks
- Mar 1976 -Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club
- Aug 1976 -Steve Jobs and Woz show off the Apple I at the Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City, with help from Dan Kottke
- 1978 -At Apple, work starts on the Apple III and the Lisa, while Jef Raskin begins The Book of Macintosh
- May 1980 -Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop
- Jan 1983 -Launch of the Lisa computer. The Lisa team later merges with the Mac team under Steve Jobs's leadership
- Apr 1983 -PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple's CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several month
- Sep 1985 -Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple. Apple announces it will sue NeXT
- Dec 1996 -Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named "informal adviser" to Apple CEO Gil Amelio
- May 1998 -Steve Jobs introduces Apple's revolutionary iMac at the Flint Center auditorium in Cupertino, 14 years after he had introduced the Macintosh at that same place
- Oct 1999 -Introduction of the iMac DVs and of iMovie, the first of Apple's first Digital Hub app
- Apr 2003 -Apple opens the revolutionary online iTunes Music Store in the US, after negotiating landmark deals with all major music labels
- Jan 2008 -At Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs introduces MacBook Air, with the tagline 'the world's thinnest notebook'. Three years later, it will come to redefine all of Apple's notebook product line
- Aug 2011 -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
- Oct 2011 -Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family
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