Steve Jobs Timeline

24 Feb 1955
Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah
Jandali and Joanne Schieble. He is quickly adopted by Paul and
Clara Jobs
Summer 1968
13-year-old Steve Jobs calls up Bill Hewlett and gets a summer job
at the HP factory
1969
Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual
friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and
pranks
1972
Steve and Woz build and illegally sell 'blue boxes' that allow to make
phone calls for free
1973
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
1974
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
1 Apr 1976
Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak
and Ron Wayne
Spring 1976
Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobses'
garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the
Byte Shop
1978
The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer, with
impressive sales around the US. Apple becomes a symbol of the
personal computing revolution
12 Dec 1980
Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of
millions of dollars to over $200 million

12 Aug 1981
IBM launches the IBM PC, the biggest threat to Apple's future yet
24 Jan 1984
Macintosh is launched in great fanfare at Apples annual shareholder
meeting
24 Feb 1985
Steve Jobs celebrates his 30th birthday in great fanfare, with Ella
Fitzgerald as guest singer for the night
Summer 1985
Alan Kay first introduces the Pixar team to Steve Jobs
Winter 1988
Pixar launches its new computer graphics workstation, the Pixar
Image Computer II, and starts working on the RenderMan computer
animation software
Apr 1989
Steve Jobs is named 'Entrepreneur of the decade' by Inc. magazine
May 1991
Pixar signs a deal with Disney to make a computer-animated feature
film
29 Nov 1995
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
5 Jan 1999
Steve Jobs introduces the new Power Mac G3 and the color iMacs
at Macworld San Francisco
19 May 2001
Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and
Glendale, California
16 Oct 2003
"The day hell froze over": Steve Jobs introduces iTunes for Windows
and further demonstrates Apple's growing lead over its competitors
in the digital music business
Fall 2003
Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but stubbornly
refuses any modern medical treatment for months. He tries
alternative diets instead

Aug 2004
Steve Jobs finally has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery
12 Jun 2005
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
9 Jan 2007
In his most memorable keynote presentation ever, at Macworld
2007, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone and its revolutionary touchscreen 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
5 Dec 2007
Steve Jobs is inducted in to the California Hall of Fame by Gov.
Schwartzenegger
Apr 2009
Steve receives a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital
in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he
got the surgery
27 Jan 2010
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
7 Jun 2011
Steve Jobs appears at the Cupertino City Council to unveil Apple's
plans for its new 'Spaceship' campus. This is his last public
appearance
24 Aug 2011
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, with the words 'I have always
said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties
and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you
know. Unfortunately, that day has come.' Tim Cook becomes Apple
CEO
5 Oct 2011
Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family