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Steve Jobs was born on February 24 1955,in Los Altos
California.
During his high school years, Jobs workedsummers at
Hewlitt-Packard, it was therethat he first met his future
business
partner Steve Wozniak.
He studied as an undergraduate: physics,literature, and poetry,
at Reed College,Oregon, an interesting combination ofsubjects.
Steve Jobs formally only attended only onesemester at Reed
College.
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However, he remained at Reed College and
attending auditing courses including acalligraphy class, which
he attributes asbeing the reason Apple computers hadsuch elegant
typefaces.
After leaving Oregon in 1974 andreturning to California, Steve
Jobs startedworking for Atari, an early pioneermanufacturer of
personal computers.
Jobs' close personal friend Steve Wozniakwas also working for
Atari, and the futurefounders of Apple teamed together todesign
games for Atari computers.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak alsoproved their chops as hackers,
and
designed a telephone blue box in 1975.
A blue box was an electronic device thatsimulated a telephone
operator's dialing
console and provided the user with freephone calls.
Steve Jobs spent plenty of time atWozniak's Homebrew Computer
Club, ahaven for computer geeks and a source ofinvaluable
information about the field ofpersonal computers.
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Jobs and Wozniak had learned enough totry their hand at building
personal
computers.
Using Steve Job's family garage as a baseof operation, the team
produced fifty fully
assembled computers that were sold to alocal Mountain View
electronics store calledthe Byte Shop.
The sale encouraged the pair to found the
Apple Corporation on April 1, 1979.
The Apple Corporation was named afterSteve Job's favorite
fruit.
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The Apple logo was a representation of thefruit with a bite
taken out of it.
The bite represented a play on words -bite and byte.
During the early 80s, Steve Jobscontrolled the business side of
the AppleCorporation and Steve Wozniak, thedesign side.
However, in 1984 a power struggle withthe board of directors
caused Steve Jobsto leave Apple.
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After things at Apple got a little rotten,
Steve Jobs founded NeXT, a high-endcomputer company.
Ironically Apple bought NeXT in 1996, andSteve Jobs returned to
Apple to serve once
more as its CEO from 1997 until hisretirement in 2011.
The world's first web browser was created
on a NeXT, and the technology in NeXTsoftware was transferred to
theMacintosh and the iPhone.
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In 1986, Steve Jobs bought "The GraphicsGroup" from Lucasfilm's
computer
graphics division for ten million dollars.
The company was later renamed Pixar.
At first Jobs intended that Pixar become ahigh-end graphic
hardware developer, butthat goal was not well achieved, and
Pixarmoved on to do what it does best - makeanimated films.
Steve Jobs negotiated Pixar and Disney tocollaborate on a number
of animated filmsincluding Toy Story.
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In 2006, Disneybought Pixar from SteveJobs.
After Steve Jobs return to Apple as CEO in1997, Apple Computers
has had a new lifein product development with the iMac,
iPod, iPhone, iPad and more.
Before his death, Steve Jobs was listed asthe inventor and
co-inventor on 342
United States patents, with technologiesranging from computer
and portabledevices, user interfaces, speakers,keyboards, power
adapters, staircases,clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages.
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In November 2010, Jobs was ranked No.17on Forbes: The World's
Most Powerful People.
He diedon October 5, 2011, Palo Alto, California,United
Statesdue to cancer.
