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 |
| 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 |
| Mar 1976 | Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club |
| 28 Aug 1976 | Steve Jobs and Woz show off the Apple I at the Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City, with help from Dan Kottke |
| 1978 | At Apple, work starts on the Apple III and the Lisa, while Jef Raskin begins The Book of Macintosh |
| May 1980 | Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop |
| Jan 1983 | Launch of the Lisa computer. The Lisa team later merges with the Mac team under Steve Jobs's leadership |
| 8 Apr 1983 | PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple's CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months |
| 17 Sep 1985 | Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple. Apple announces it will sue NeXT |
| Dec 1996 | 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 |
| 6 May 1998 | Steve Jobs introduces Apple's revolutionary iMac at the Flint Center auditorium in Cupertino, 14 years after he had introduced the Macintosh at that same place |
| 5 Oct 1999 | Introduction of the iMac DVs and of iMovie, the first of Apple's first Digital Hub app |
| 28 Apr 2003 | Apple opens the revolutionary online iTunes Music Store in the US, after negotiating landmark deals with all major music labels |
| 15 Jan 2008 | 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 |
| 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 |
IN THE NETSHELL
Steve Paul Jobs
| Born | February 24, 1955 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 5, 2011 (aged 56) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Primary investor and CEO of Pixar Founder and CEO of NeXT |
| Parents | Paul Jobs (adoptive father) Clara Jobs (adoptive mother) Abdulfattah Jandali (biological father) Joanne Schieble Simpson (biological mother) |
| Children | with Brennan; Lisa Brennan (b. 1978) with Powell; Reed Jobs (b. 1991) Erin Jobs (b. 1995) Eve Jobs (b. 1998) |
| Cause of death | Pancreatic cancer and respiratory arrest |