Time Line

• February 24, 1955 - Steven Paul Jobs is born in San Francisco to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. The then-unmarried couple give up their son to adoption. Paul and Clara Jobs become Jobs' non-biological parents
• 1961 - The Jobs family moves to Mountain View, California, part of what would later become known as Silicon Valley.
• 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 his elder, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks.
• 1976 - Wozniak and Jobs show the first board for the Apple I at the Homebrew Computer Club. On April 1, Jobs, Wozniak and Ron Wayne incorporate as Apple Computer.
• December 12, 1980 - Apple Inc. goes public, increasing Steve Jobs' net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million
• September 17, 1985 - Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple
• February 03, 1986 - For $10 million, buys the Graphics Group division of Lucasfilm that becomes Pixar Animation Studios
• April, 1989 - Steve Jobs is named 'Entrepreneur of the decade' by Inc. magazine
• December 10, 1996 - Returns to Apple, as an adviser, after it buys NeXT for $429 million.
• October 23, 2001 - The now successful Apple released the first iPod in 2001. Jobs had no idea how much it would change the company or technology.
• 2003 - Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
• January 9, 2007 - Jobs introduced the item most closely associated with Apple today: the iPhone
• April, 2009 - After taking a medical leave of absence, Jobs, only weeks from death, had a liver transplant.
• 2010 - Jobs announced the release of the first tablet, the iPad, and an improved iPhone, the iPhone 4.
• August 24, 2011 - Jobs resigned from Apple, handing the reigns to Tim Cook. His health had worsened
• October 5, 2011 - Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family