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Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble. He is quickly adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
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The Jobs family moves from San Francisco to Mountain View, a suburban town in Santa Clara county, more famous under the name Silicon Valley.
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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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Steve and Woz build and illegally sell 'blue boxes' that allow to make phone calls for free.
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Steve gets his first job at video game maker Atari, and later makes a trip to India to 'seek enlightenment' with his college friend Dan Kottke
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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 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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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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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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Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar
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Steve's mother Clara dies. A couple months later, Steve discovers his biological mother Joanne and his sister, novelist Mona Simpson. They will become close friends
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At SIGGRAPH, Pixar releases its new short Tin Toy. It will win 1988's Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
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Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of Steve's old zen guru Kobin Chino. Laurene is already pregnant
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Introduction of the iMac DVs and of iMovie, the first of Apple's first Digital Hub app
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Opening day of Finding Nemo, Pixar’s first Best Animated Feature Academy Award winner
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Steve Jobs unveils the Power Mac G5, the world’s fastest computer, at WWDC
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Following increasing tension with Michael Eisner, Steve Jobs announces that Pixar is seeking a new distributor to replace Disney after its contract expires.
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Despite his medical leave, Steve Jobs takes the stage to unveil the new iPad 2
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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 dies at home, surrounded by his family.
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After two years of work, and forty interviews with Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson publishes his authorized biography of the Apple and Pixar co-founder, simply named Steve Jobs.