Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah and Joanne. He is adopted by Jobs Family

Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks

Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne

Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobses’ garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop

A portrait of Steve Jobs ends up on the cover of Time Magazine, under the title ‘Striking it Rich’.

PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple’s CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months

Macintosh is launched in great fanfare at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple.

Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas’ ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar.

Steve Jobs introduces the NeXT Cube in San Francisco to great critical acclaim, pitching it as a workstation for higher education

Steve Jobs is named ‘Entrepreneur of the decade’ by Inc. magazine

Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of Steve’s old zen guru Kobin Chino. Laurene is already pregnant

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

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