{"id":573,"date":"2017-07-03T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upperinc.com\/previews\/wp\/raven\/multipage\/?page_id=573"},"modified":"2017-07-03T17:51:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:51:04","slug":"timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wavserv.com\/index.php\/timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah and Joanne. He is adopted by Jobs Family[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1969″ time_position=”auto”]\"steve_wozniak_and_steve_jobs_met2\"<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1 Apr 1976″ time_position=”auto”]\"full.2366288306_b60155ce23_o\"<\/p>\n

Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Spring 1976″ time_position=”auto”]\"steve_wozniak_and_steve_jobs_1\"<\/p>\n

Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobses’ garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”12 Dec 1980″ time_position=”auto”]\"o-STEVE-JOBS-1977-facebook\"<\/p>\n

Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs\u2019 net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million[\/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Feb 1982″ time_position=”auto”]\"Striking-It-Rich\"<\/p>\n

A portrait of Steve Jobs ends up on the cover of Time Magazine, under the title ‘Striking it Rich’.[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”8 Apr 1983 ” time_position=”auto”]\"03\"<\/p>\n

PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple’s CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Jan 1984″ time_position=”auto”]\"apple-1984-runner\"<\/p>\n

Macintosh is launched in great fanfare at Apple\u2019s annual shareholder meeting[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”17 Sep 1985″ time_position=”auto”]\"070409c1N\"<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple.[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”1986-1996 NeXT Pixar & wilderness”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”30 Jan 1986″ time_position=”auto”]<\/p>\n

Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas’ ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar.[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”12 Oct 1988″ time_position=”auto”]Steve Jobs introduces the NeXT Cube in San Francisco to great critical acclaim, pitching it as a workstation for higher education<\/p>\n

\"13\"[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Apr 1989″ time_position=”auto”]\"Steve-Jobs-Entrepreneur-of-the-Decade-cover-story-1989-pop_10605\"<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs is named ‘Entrepreneur of the decade’ by Inc. magazine[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”18 Mar 1991 ” time_position=”auto”]\"Steve-Jobs-Laurene-Powell-wedding\"<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of Steve’s old zen guru Kobin Chino. Laurene is already pregnant[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”29 Nov 1995″ time_position=”auto”]\"Toy-Story\"<\/p>\n

One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs\u2019s worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple[\/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Early 1996 ” time_position=”auto”]\"01pixar.xlarge1\"Steve Jobs negotiates a breakthrough deal between Pixar and Disney with its CEO Michael Eisner. The deal includes landmark rights for a studio, such as equal billing[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Dec 1996″ time_position=”auto”]\"next-apple-merger\"<\/p>\n

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[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”1997-2004 Rebuilding Apple”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Jul 1997″ time_position=”auto”]\"150739-steve-jobs-interim-ceo-of-apple-computer-inc-talks-about-apples-softwa\"<\/p>\n

Gil Amelio is ousted by the Apple Board of directors after a disastrous quarter. Steve Jobs is named interim CEO in his place and installs his NeXT executive team at the top of Apple[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”6 Aug 1997″ time_position=”auto”]\"0631\"<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs introduces Apple’s new board of directors and a truce with Microsoft at Macworld Boston[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Fall 1997″ time_position=”auto”]<\/p>\n

Apple starts its ‘Think Different’ campaign to restore its damaged brand image. The new slogan will quickly enter popular culture and define the company for the next five years[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”5 Jan 1999″ time_position=”auto”]\"61390460592_freesize1\"<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs introduces the new Power Mac G3 and the color iMacs at Macworld San Francisco[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”April 1999″ time_position=”auto”]\"Pirates_Of_Silicon_Valley_357751\"<\/p>\n

Pirates of Silicon Valley, a TV movie starring Noah Wyle as young Steve Jobs, airs[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”5 Jan 2000″ time_position=”auto”]\"jobs8_2000_1980131i\"<\/p>\n

At Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs drops the ‘interim’ in his title and officially becomes Apple\u2019s CEO.[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”19 May 2001 ” time_position=”auto”]\"apple_store_amsterdam_staircase\"<\/p>\n

Apple opens its first Retail Stores in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”23 Oct 2001 ” time_position=”auto”]\"20111023_ipod\"<\/p>\n

After an 8-month crash development program, Steve Jobs unveils iPod at a small media event on the company’s campus. He has no idea how it will tranform Apple[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”28 Apr 2003 ” time_position=”auto”]Apple opens the revolutionary online iTunes Music Store in the US, after negotiating landmark deals with all major music labels[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”30 May 2003″ time_position=”auto”]<\/p>\n

Opening day of Finding Nemo, Pixar\u2019s first Best Animated Feature Academy Award winner[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”23 Jun 2003″ time_position=”auto”]Steve Jobs unveils the Power Mac G5, the world\u2019s fastest computer, at WWDC[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Fall 2003″ time_position=”auto”]Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but stubbornly refuses any modern medical treatment for months. He tries alternative diets instead[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”6 Jan 2004″ time_position=”auto”]Steve unveils the iPod mini and the iLife suite at Macworld. The iPod mini will soon become the world’s best-selling MP3 player and truly establish Apple as a consumer electronics powerhouse[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Aug 2004″ time_position=”auto”]Steve Jobs finally has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”2005-2011 The Big Apple”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”12 Jun 2005 ” time_position=”auto”]<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs makes a memorable commencement speech at Stanford University. History will remember its closing remarks, Steve’s advice to the young students:<\/p>\n

‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Jan 2006 ” time_position=”auto”]The Walt Disney Company acquires Pixar for $7.4 billion. Pixar’s largest shareholder Steve Jobs joins the Disney board while Ed Catmull becomes president of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, and John Lasseter its chief creative officer[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”9 Jan 2007 ” time_position=”auto”]\"image-1024x792\"<\/p>\n

In his most memorable keynote presentation ever, at Macworld 2007, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone and its revolutionary touch-screen interface.[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”15 Jan 2008 ” time_position=”auto”]<\/p>\n

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[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Apr 2009″ time_position=”auto”]Steve receives a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he got the surgery[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”9 Sep 2009 ” time_position=”auto”]\"ipod_icons___5_colours_by_mindjek-d3cq1u3\"<\/p>\n

Back at Apple, Steve Jobs makes the first public appearance after his transplant to introduce new iPods at the ‘It’s Only Rock’N’Roll’ event[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”27 Jan 2010″ time_position=”auto”]\"iPad-Mini\"<\/p>\n

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[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Aug 2011 ” time_position=”auto”]\"rip_steve_jobs_by_xmeerzx-d4bzuvm\"<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, with the words<\/p>\n

‘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.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[\/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”5 Oct 2011″ time_position=”auto”]\"Steve-Jobs-1955-2011\"<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family[\/icon_timeline_item][\/icon_timeline][\/ult_animation_block][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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