Steve Jobs Portrait
Let's take a look at Steve's life, shall we?
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1955
- Steve Jobs is born in San Francisco,
and quickly adopted.
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1960
- The Jobs family moves to
Mountain View, otherwise known as Silicon Valley
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1968
- 13 year old Jobs gets a summer
job at the HP factory
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1969
- Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak
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1972
- Jobs and Wozniak build and illegally
sell 'blue boxes' that
allow free phone calls to be made
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1973
- Steve spends the fall semester
at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out.
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1974
- Steve gets his first job at Atari
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1976
- Wozniak and Jobs show the early
Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club
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1976
- Apple Computer Inc is incorporated
by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne
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1977
- Apple makes a huge sensation
at the West Coast Computer Faire with a prototype
Apple II
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1978
- The Apple II becomes
the first mass-market personal computer.
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1978 - Steve's ex-girlfriend
Chris-Ann Brennan gives birth to their daughter Lisa.
Steve refuses to acknowledge he is the father.
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1980 - Apple goes public
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1982 - Steve Jobs ends up on
the Time Magazine cover
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1983 - Launch of the Lisa Computer
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1983 - PepsiCo CEO John Sculley
becomes Apple's CEO
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1984 - Macintosh is launched
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1985 - Apple's board sides
with John Sculley and strips Steve of all executive duties
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1985 - Steve resigns from Apple
and starts NeXT
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1986 - Jobs incorporates Pixar
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1988 - NeXT and IBM form a
partnership
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1989 - Steve Jobs is named
'Entreprenuer of the decade' by Inc. Magazine
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1991 - Steve marries Laurene Powell
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1991 - Laurene gives birth to Steve's second
child and only son, Reed Paul Jobs
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1995 - Laurene gives birth to Erin Siena Jobs,
her second child with Steve
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1995 - Pixar releases Toy Story
and Pixar goes public
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1996 - Steve negotiates a deal between
Pixar and Disney. The deal includes landmark rights
for a studio, such as equal billing
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1996 - Apple buys NeXT for $400 million
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1997 - Steve Jobs is named
interim CEO and installs his NeXT executive team at
the top of Apple
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1997 - Apple starts its Think Different campaign
to restore its damaged brand image.
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1998 - Eve Jobs, Laurene and
Steve's youngest daughter, is born
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1998 - Steve Jobs introduces Apple's iMac
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2000 - Steve Jobs becomes Apple CEO, dropping the "interim" in his title
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2001 - Apple opens its first Retail
Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California
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2001 - Steve Jobs unveils iPod
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2003 - Apple opens the revolutionary online
iTunes Music Store in the US
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2003 - Steve Jobs is diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer
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2004 - Steve unveils the iPod mini
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2004 - Steve has his pancreatic tumor removed
by a surgeon
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2005 - Steve unveils Apple's iWork and the Mac Mini
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2006 - Steve unveils the first two Intel Macs at Macworld,
the iMac and the new MacBook Pro
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2006 - Disney buys Pixar
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2007 - Steve introduces the iPhone
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2008 - Steve introduces MacBook Air
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2008 - Apple announces it will open the iPhone platform to outside developers
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2010 - Steve unveils the iPad
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2011 - Steve announces his medical leave of absence, without an end date
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2011 - Steve unveils the iCloud at his last keynote speech
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2011 - Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
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2011 - Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family