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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 spends the fall semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out. He will stay on campus and attend the classes that interest him for a while, then move to a hippie commune
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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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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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Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne
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Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop
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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 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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Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature film
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Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California
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Apple opens the revolutionary online iTunes Music Store in the US, after negotiating landmark deals with all major music labels
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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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In his most memorable keynote presentation ever, at Macworld 2007, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone and its revolutionary touch-screen interface. He also introduces Apple TV and announces the company's name change from Apple Computer Inc. to Apple Inc. to better reflect its new nature
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Jobs surprises the world by announcing his new medical leave of absence, without any end date
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Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family
