Steve Jobs

By NikitaLapinagov123
  • 1955

    1955

    Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco
  • 1976

    1976

    Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer.
  • 1979

    1979

    Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI).
  • 1986

    1986

    he helped to develop the visual effects industry when he funded the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986
  • 1997

    1997

    Jobs became CEO of Apple in 1997, following his company's acquisition of NeXT
  • 1997

    1997

    He worked closely with designer Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications, beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign and leading to the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad.
  • 2001

    2001

    In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with the completely new Mac OS X, based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time
  • 2003

    2003

    Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003.
  • 2011

    2011

    He died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor at age 56 on October 5, 2011.