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13-year-old Steve Jobs calls up Bill Hewlett and gets a summer job at the HP factory
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Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks
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Steve and Woz build and illegally sell 'blue boxes' that allow to make phone calls for free
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Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club
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Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne
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Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobses' garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop
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Steve Jobs and Woz show off the Apple I at the Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City, with help from Dan Kottke
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Former Intel executive turned business angel Mike Markkula invests in Apple and hires former colleague Mike Scott as CEO. Woz is forced to leave HP to join Apple full time
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Apple makes a huge sensation at the West Coast Computer Faire with a prototype Apple II
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The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer, with impressive sales around the US. Apple becomes a symbol of the personal computing revolution
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Sales of Apple II skyrocket after pioneer spreadsheet software Visicalc is introduced
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Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop
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Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million
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Black Wednesday: 50 Apple employees laid off by CEO Mike Scott without notice. The board asks him to leave shortly afterwards. Mike Markkula becomes interim CEO
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IBM launches the IBM PC, the biggest threat to Apple's future yet
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A portrait of Steve Jobs ends up on the cover of Time Magazine, under the title 'Striking it Rich'. Steve trusts Time correspondent Michael Moritz to follow him on the Mac team for months, hoping to become Man of the Year
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Time instead makes The Computer 'machine of the year' and publishes a hatchet job on Steve Jobs, who becomes furious and suspicious of journalists for the rest of his life
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Alan Kay first introduces the Pixar team to Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple. Apple announces it will sue NeXT. He and the 5 others found NeXT.
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Steve aquires the computer graphics division of Pixar
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Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar
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Steve Jobs introduces the NeXT Cube in San Francisco to great critical acclaim, pitching it as a workstation for higher education
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Steve Jobs is named 'Entrepreneur of the decade' by Inc. magazine
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Steve is credited in Toy Story as executive produer
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Steve starts focusing less on NeXT and more on Pixar before Toy Story is released. He becomes President & CEO of Pixar Animation Studios
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Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, later buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is then named "informal adviser" to Apple CEO Gil Amelio
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Gil Amelio is fired by the Apple Board of directors after a terrible quarter. Steve Jobs is named interim CEO in his place and installs his NeXT executive team at the top of Apple's pyramid
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Apple starts its 'Think Different' campaign to restore its damaged brand image. The new slogan will quickly enter popular culture and represent and define the company for the next fcouple of years
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At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs announces that Apple is profitable again, thanks to sales of the new Power Macintosh computers
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Steve Jobs introduces the new Power Mac G3 and the color iMacs at Macworld in San Francisco
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Introduction of the iMac DVs and iMovie, the first of Apple's first Digital Hub app
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At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs drops the 'interim' in his title and officially becomes Apple’s CEO. He also announces Mac OS X's revolutionary Aqua interface to a excited and surprised audience
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Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California
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After an 8-month crash development program, Steve Jobs unveils iPod at a teeny media event on the company's campus. He has no idea how it will tranform Apple in the future
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Steve Jobs introduces the first Windows-compatible iPods at Macworld NY
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The 3rd generation iPod released
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Apple opens the online iTunes Music Store in the US, after negotiating landmark deals with all major music labels
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Steve Jobs comes out with the Power Mac G5, the world’s fastest computer, at WWDC
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Steve unveils the iPod mini and the iLife suite at Macworld. The iPod mini will soon become the world's best-selling MP3 player and establish Apple as a consumer electronics company
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At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs introduces Apple's productivity suite iWork, the new Mac mini, and the iPod shuffle, the cheapest iPod ever at $49
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Steve introduces the Motorola ROCKR, an iTunes-compatible cell phone, and the iPod nano is introduced
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Steve Jobs invites Disney’s new CEO Bob Iger on stage at an Apple Music Event where he also introduces the new iPod videos and the iTunes movie store
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Steve Jobs unveils the first two Intel Macs at Macworld, the iMac and the new MacBook Pro
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Apple releases its first living-room product, the iPod hi-fi, discontinued a year and a half later
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Steve Jobs announces Apple’s intention to erect a second campus in Cupertino
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Apple starts its famous 'Mac vs PC' campaign, a series of TV commercials featuring Justin Long as Mac and John Hodgman as PC. The campaign will last for three years and mark popular culture
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Apple completes the transition of its entire product line to the Intel platform with the new Mac Pro
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At Macworld 2007, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone and its revolutionary touch-screen interface. He also introduces Apple TV and announces the company's name change from Apple Computer Inc. to Apple Inc. to better represtent their company
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iPhone is released in the US, the same day as Pixar’s 8th feature film, Ratatouille
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Steve Jobs is inducted in the California Hall of Fame by Gov. Schwartzenegger
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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
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Apple starts its popular 'There's an app for that' campaign to illustrate the growing popularity of the App Store and the thousands of iPhone apps it offers
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Steve Jobs announces he will not speak at Macworld 2009 because of his health, and takes a six-month medical leave of absence
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Steve receives a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he got the surgery
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaves Apple's board because of conflicting interests due to Android
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Back at Apple, Steve Jobs makes the first public appearance after his transplant to introduce new iPods at the 'It's Only Rock'N'Roll' event
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After months of wild rumors, Steve Jobs unveils iPad, 'the biggest thing Apple's ever done'. The tablet runs the same operating system as iPhone
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One month after the release of the new iPhone 4, Steve Jobs holds a press conference to address the smartphone's supposed reception issues, the so-called 'Antennagate
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Jobs surprises the world by announcing his new medical leave of absence, without any end date
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Despite his medical leave, Steve Jobs takes the stage to unveil the new iPad 2
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At his last keynote at WWDC 2011, a freil Steve Jobs unveils Apple's cloud offering, iCloud, for the next decade of Apple products
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Steve Jobs appears at the Cupertino City Council to unveil Apple's plans for its new 'Spaceship' campus. This is his last public appearance
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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
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Steve Jobs dies at home
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Apple introduces its iPad Mini to compete with Nook and Kindle.
