Steve Jobs' Timeline

1950s

• Steve Jobs was born on February 24, at 7:15 PM, 1955, in San Francisco
• His parents, Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali, gave him up for adoption
• Steve Job's mother gave birth to him out of wedlock, at a time when society frowned upon a woman having a child outside marriage
• Steve's adoptive parents were Clara and Paul Jobs
• In the 1950s, hipsters were introduced in society
• Scientists realized how to combine many transistors, which were invented in the 1940s by three scientists working at AT&T's Bell, on a small slice of silicon.

1960s

• Mid 1960s: Times were changing for Jobs and he would have other things in mind.
• 1960s: Computers at the time were the size of refrigerators or rooms.
• 1968: Hewlett-Packard developed the 9100A, the first desktop scientific calculator advertising it as a personal computer.
• 1960 and 1970: Orchards were bulldozed for new housing development, and San Jose’s population doubled in size, while nearby Cupertino’s quadrupled.
• 1968: Steve Jobs entered high school.
• 1967: A story on the hippies was released by Times magazine which affected Steve by encouraging him to take LSD and Marijuana.
• A company called Intel started selling CPU's (Central Processing Unit) to the public

1970s

• 1970: Intel built the first Central Processing Unit (CPU).

• 1970’s: Vietnam War started to slowly wind down the hippie culture.

• 1971: Ron Rosenbaum, wrote an “Esquire” Story that related to Steve and Wozniack selling Blue Boxes to the public.

• 1971: Wozniak returned to college

• 1972: the first digital game "Pong" was released, and it was very popular.

• 1972: 500 students were white and 2 were black and a few Asian

• 1972: draft for twenty-year-old-men would stop being drafted for Vietnam war.

• 1972-1973: Reed’s tuition and fees were 3,950$ too much for Jobs parents to pay.

• 1974: halfway into reed Steve jobs was uncertain about his future and wanted to travel to India for spiritual enlightenment but did not have enough money. He ended up going and staying there for several months.

• 1975: first real “micro” computer was made by Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• 1975: Increase of people buying shared of Apples stock.

• 1975: Jobs was working at Atari, working nights as a consulting.

• 1976: Apple Computers was created in Jobs' garage.

• 1976: Interface Magazine called Jobs only the director of marketing and Wozniack the brain.

• 1976: Jobs and Wozniack flew to Atlantic City to see a computer show.

• 1977: Apple earned $774,000 on selling computers and a total of 42,000$ in its first year of being a real company.

• 1977: Apple employees rushed to get the Mackintosh ready for its first public announcement.

• 1977: Apple was officially created with Jobs, Wozniack, and Markkula owning equal shares.

• 1977: Apple was valued at 5,305 and was now valued at 3 million dollars.

• 1978: Wozniack made the Apple 2 to use a new style of floppy disk.

• 1978: Lisa (Steve Jobs’) daughter was born.

• 1979: Couple of business types in Boston came up with a way to simplify financial calculations.

• 1979: DNA tests were new, and Jobs did one.

• 1979: Jobs and Markkula sold about 1 million dollars’ worth of their stocks.

• 1979: Xerox bought a large portion of Apples stock.

• Apples sales exploded to 7.9 million.

1980s

• 1980: All of Apples 4.6 million dollars of Apples stock was released for the public to buy at $22 each the first day and $26 the next
• 1980: Apple 3 introduced to public.
• 1980: Calligraphy became useful again to Jobs, especially when creating the Macintosh.
• 1981: International Business Machines (IBM) finally entered the desktop computer business with is personal computers, or PC’s.
• 1981: Jobs Fired 40 employees that he thought just were not good enough.
• 1981: Steve Jobs is now 26 years old and he fells the rest of his story is coming together.
• 1981: Steve’s employee Raskin called him “a dreadful manager.”
• 1981: Xerox made a computer used in offices for 16,595$
• 1982: Apple sold around 700,000 Apple 3 computers that year, making the company on the top 500 largest Companies list.
• 1982: Times Magazine stared Jobs as the creator of the Personal Computer Machine of the Year.
• 1982: Jobs and Markkula were led to former Pepsi-Cola leader that would help them channel Jobs energy and passion into the company (John Sculley)
• 1982: Jobs dated Joan Baez.
• 1983: Apple gave Jobs $1 million dollars for helping the company.
• 1983: Apple stock decreased, and Jobs lost lots of money.
• 1983: Lisa Computer was introducing with the cost of $50 million to create, and the first to use a mouse.
• 1983: Microsoft agreed to create a software for IMB computers called Windows.
• 1983: Wozniack returned to Apple to improve the Apple 2.
• 1984: Apple Made their new add that was featured in the Super Bowl.
• 1984: BusinessWeek interviewed Jobs about his personal interests.
• 1984: Jobs purchased an old Spanish style mansion with 14 bedrooms.
• 1985: Wozniack left Apple for a while to develop a remote control.
• 1985: Jobs said “was a short of genius with his hands. He can fix anything and make it work and take any mechanical thing apart and get it back together,” Jobs told the interviewer about his biological father.
• 1985: Apples expects to sell about 150,000 machines, but only sold about a hundred thousand.
• 1985: Created another Super Bowl commercial called lemmings.
• 1985: Jobs turned 30 and held a fancy dinner dance for hundreds of people.
• 1985: President Ronald Regan honored Jobs and Wozniack.
• 1986: Jobs invested into two other companies Pixar and NeXT.
• 1986: Clara passes away at the age of 62 in November.
• 1988: Jobs created his first computer at NeXT.
• 1988: Tin Toy by Pixar won an Oscar for animated short films.
• 1989: Canon invested $100 million into NeXT.
• 1989: Jobs proposed to Tina Redse.
• 1989: Jobs was named entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine.

1990s

• Mid 1990-s: Mona Simpson writes a book about Steve Jobs called A Regular Guy
• 1990: Mac owners started to hate Microsoft very much.
• 1990: Jobs sold Pixar’s computer hardware business.
• 1991: November, Powell gives birth to a son.
• 1991: Jobs and Powell are married on March 18th.
• 1991: Jobs girlfriend Laurene Powell was pregnant.
• 1991: Jobs shut down Pixar.
• 1992: Around 50,000 NeXT computers had been sold.
• 1993: Apple sales grew to $8 billion under Scully.
• Mid 1990-s: Jobs explained how he was impressed with washing machines.
• 1993: March Jobs’ father passes away in March.
• 1993: Rough version of toy story produced in November.
• 1993: Jobs gave up on NeXT.
• 1994: In Jobs interview he says, “It’s not about being the richest man in the cemetery.”
• 1995: Disney released Toy Story to the public.
• Late 1990s: Jobs developed kidney stones
• 1995: Jobs turns 40.
• 1995: Jobs says this to Scully “I hired the wrong guy, and he destroyed
• 1995: Quizzed his friends’ daughters on how good toy story was.
• 1995: Total of $11 Billion in annual sales.
• 1996: Too many of one product and not enough of another in Apple.
• December 1996: Jobs returned to Apple since his leave in 1985.
• 1997: Jobs sold the $1.5 Billion shared he owned of NeXT.
• 1997: Gil Amelio was removed as chief executive officer.
• 1997: Jobs returned to Apple and ended all of Apples problems.
• 1997: Jobs worked so much this year on Apples products.
• May 1998: Jobs showed the finished version of the iMac to his colleagues.
• 1998: Jobs had his youngest daughter, Eve and left work.
• 1998: A Bugs Life was released by Pixar.
• 1999: Toy Story 2 was released by Pixar.
• Mid 1999: Jobs adopted Wi-Fi to his new products and showed reporters by dancing.

2000

• 2000: Jobs announces the new Apple computer will have a new software.
• 2000: G4 Cube computer was too expensive and only sold a couple thousand.
• 2001: Technology companies were cooling down.
• 2001: First Apple store opened in Tyson’s Corner.
• 2001: Jobs added CD burners into all Apple computers.
• September 2001: Apples shared decreased from 7 to 5.4 billion.
• 2002: Apple rolled out the iPod.
• October 2003: Jobs urologist found a tumor in his pancreas.
• April 2003: Apple released the iTunes store for Mac and iPod.
• October 2003: iTunes were released for Windows.
• April 2004: iTunes had 100,000,000,000 songs.
• 2004: The tumor expanded in size and spread to other organs.
• July 31, 2004: Doctors preformed a treatment on Jobs body.
• 2004: Apple created a phone called the RAZR and added some now features to the iPod.
• 2004: Before surgery Jobs met Steven Levy from Newsweek.
• 2004: Jobs started writing his life story with Isaacson.
• 2004: Pixar and Disney both stopped working together because of an argument.
• 2005: Steve Jobs first college graduation from Reed Collage
• 2005: Steve did his Graduation Speech at Stanford the graduating class of
• 2005 Claire Jobs diagnosed with lung cancer.
• 2005: His son Reed is 14, his daughter Erin is 10, and his youngest daughter was barely school age.
• Mid 2006: iPod had 58 million units sold.
• 2006: Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 Billion dollars.
• After 2006: Apples sales tripled to $19 Billion.
• 2007: Apples stocks were now worth $80, compared to in 2003 which were $7.
• 2007: I phone was released for $499 to $599.
• 2008: Apple sold 11,000,000 phones.
• 2008: Cancer spread to Jobs liver.
• 2008: MacBook Air was released.
• Mid 2008: e-mail system called MobileMe was created to support iPhone and Computer,
• 2008: Jobs went to Hawaii with his family.
• 2009: Jobs signs up for a liver transplant.
• 2009: Jobs was nominated for CEO of the decade.

2010s

• 2010: iPhone 4 was released.
• 2010: Jobs and his wife encouraged people to donate half their wealth to charity.
• June 6 2010: Apple's iCloud service was introduced.
• January 2011: Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple
• October 5 2011: Steve Jobs died at 56, in Palo Alto (in Silicon Valley) after fighting pancreatic cancer for over a decade.

"always wearing the quintessential black long sleeved shirt, jeans, and some sneakers"