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Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco California on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali
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Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs after he was placed up for adoption
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In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari
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In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage
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In 1980, Apple Computer became a publically traded company with a market value of $1.2 billion on the very first day of trading with a pc as $666.66 each andheir first model, the Apple I, earned them $774,000
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In 1984 Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative
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In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc
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The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios
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In the early 1990s, Jobs met Laurene Powell at Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They married on March 18, 1991, and lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children.
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In 2003, Jobs discovered he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer.
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In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor.
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Walt Disney in 2006, made Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.
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In 2007, Apple's quarterly reports were the company's most impressive statistics to date.
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In 2008, iTunes became the second biggest music retailer in America-second only to Wal-Mart. Half of Apple's current revenue comes from iTunes and iPod sales, with 200 million iPods sold and six billion songs downloaded
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On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that co-founder Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 years old at the time of his death.
