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Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, CA to Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble, an unmarried/interracial couple. Immediately, he is adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs thus he became Steve Jobs.
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The Jobs family move from San Francisco, CA to Santa Clara County to a place known as "Silicon Valley"
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At only thirteen years of age, Steve Jobs calls up the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packered Company, Bill Hewlett. Durring their conversation a summer job at the HP Factory is granted for that summer.
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Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love for electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks.
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Steve and Woz build and illegally sell 'blue boxes' that have the ability to make phone calls for free
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Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board aka "blue boxes" 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
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Mike Markkula invests in Apple and hires former colleague Mike Scott as CEO. Steve Woz is forced to leave HP to join Apple full time.
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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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Apple III is launched, this same year, Apple goes public which increased Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million
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Steve Jobs acquired the computer graphics division of Lucas film Ltd. for ten million dollars and renamed it Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company on May 5, 2006.
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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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Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, leaving Tim Cook as Apple CEO. On Oct 5 of that same year Steve dies in his home. A biography of him is published.
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Present day, Apple produces economic growth but their products are smart, dependable and simple. Products can also be used to do a variety of things. The equipment is not cheap and through it communication can happen in a variety of ways; facetime, texting and email. Now, there is ichat, where users that have iphone can communicate with one another through wifi connection.
