Steve Jobs

By aleesmith

  • Steven Jobs was born in San Francisco, California

  • The Jobs family moves to Mountain View, California, which would eventually turn into Silicon Valley.

  • Jobs meets future Apple c-founder, Steve Wozniak.

  • Co-founds Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

  • The Apple II became the first mass-marketed personal computer

  • Steve Jobs is fired from Apple by the board, then starts a new company called NeXT.

  • Steve purchases the computer animation division from George Lucas and makes Pixar.

  • Apple purchase NeXT, and Jobs returns to his role as CEO.

  • Apple releases the first iPod.

  • Apple opens the online iTunes Music store.

  • The first iPhone is released in the US, the same day Pixar movie Ratatouille premiered.

  • Jobs resigns from Apple giving Tim Cook control of the company.

  • Steve Jobs dies at home from pancreatic cancer.