Steve Jobs

1955 - 2011

Pioneered revolutionary technologies like the iPhone and iPad

Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.

The following list is a time line of Steve Jobs

• 1955 - Born in San Francisco, California
• 1974 - Took a position as a video game designer with Atari.
• 1976 - Co-founded Apple with Steve Wosniak.
• 1980 - Apple Computer became a publicly-traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading.
• 1984 - Apple released the Macintosh.
• 1985 - Jobs left Apple.
• 1986 - Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios.
• 1997 - Returned to Apple as CEO.
• 2006 - Pixar merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.
• 2007 - Apple's quarterly reports improved significantly.
• 2008 - Apple became the second-biggest music retailer in America — second only to Walmart, fueled by iTunes and iPod sales. Apple has also been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine's list of "America's Most Admired Companies," as well as No. 1 among Fortune 500 companies for returns to shareholders.
• 2011 - Jobs died in Palo Alto on October 5, 2011, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade. He was 56 years old.