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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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13-year-old Steve Jobs calls up Bill Hewlett and gets a summer job at the HP factory
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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's ex-girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan gives birth to their daugher Lisa. Steve refuses to acknowledge he is the father.
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Sales of Apple II skyrocket after pioneer spreadsheet software Visicalc is introduced
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Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop
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Palace coup: Apple's board sides with John Sculley and strips Steve off all executive duties
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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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Steve Jobs introduces the NeXT Cube in San Francisco to great critical acclaim, pitching it as a workstation for higher education
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Steve Jobs is named 'Entrepreneur of the decade' by Inc. magazine
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Steve starts focusing less on NeXT and more on Pixar before Toy Story is released. He becomes President & CEO of Pixar Animation Studios
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One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs's worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple
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Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named "informal adviser" to Apple CEO Gil Amelio
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Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California
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Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but stubbornly refuses any modern medical treatment for months. He tries alternative diets instead
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Steve Jobs makes a memorable commencement speech at Stanford University. History will remember its closing remarks, Steve's advice to the young students: 'Stay hungry, stay foolish', a quote from the last page of the Whole Earth Catalogue from his youth
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At Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs introduces MacBook Air, with the tagline 'the world's thinnest notebook'. Three years later, it will come to redefine all of Apple's notebook product line
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After months of wild rumors, Steve Jobs unveils iPad, 'the biggest thing Apple's ever done'. The tablet runs the same operating system as iPhone
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Passed away due to cancer.
