Happy 52nd birthday, Steve Jobs!

Happy Birthday, Steve! Today is Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs’ 52nd birthday. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955.

Steve Jobs was a college dropout when he teamed up with Steve Wozniak in 1976 to sell personal computers assembled in Jobs’ garage. That was the beginning of Apple Computer, which revolutionized the computing industry and made Jobs a multimillionaire before he was 30 years old. He was forced out of the company in 1985 and started the NeXT Corporation, but returned to his old company in 1996 when Apple bought NeXT. Jobs soon became Apple’s chief executive officer and sparked a resurgence in the company with products like the colorful iMac computer and the iPod music player. Jobs was also the CEO of Pixar, the animation company responsible for movies like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Pixar was purchased by the Walt Disney Company in 2006 for $7.4 billion in stock; the deal made Jobs the largest individual shareholder of Disney stock.

Some sources list Los Altos, California as Jobs’s place of birth. However, in a 1995 oral history interview with The Smithsonian, Jobs said, “I was born in San Francisco, California, USA, planet Earth, February 24, 1955.” Jobs was given up for adoption after birth and raised by his adoptive parents in Silicon Valley… His biological sister is novelist Mona Simpson, author of “Anywhere But Here.”

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47 Comments

  1. Crazy as it sounds, I read somewhere that he was actually born in Milwaukee. “Baxter, is that you? Bark twice if you’re in Milwaukee.” ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

    Happy Birthday, Steve!

  2. Happy Birthday Mr. Steve Jobs,
    Thanks for eveything about Apple, NOW finish the job with mircosoft and dell. Push that final thrush of the sword in to the hearts of the PC world. Take them out, like turnning off a light switch

    like the MDN magic word say needed

    THEY NEEDED BAD

  3. Happy Birthday, Steve.

    Thank you for your strength, for your wish to make this world a better place, to fight against those who only wish to make money, mocking people with bad products, without a soul.

    Keep rocking, for the good of all of us.

    MW “not” as in “I am NOT a Windows user, thank God”

  4. Happy Birthday, Steve!
    I hope you got a C++ GUI programming guide from old PC.
    Not that you would visit or read from this site about the news and rumours going on in your own company. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />

  5. “Steve Jobs…..I love you man.” and other expressions of “love”, etc

    its not normal for a male to be drawn to anoother male to the extent of many on this site. unresolved, repressed issues may be at play.

  6. In a 52nd birthday press release, Steve Jobs recanted his “admittedly ignorant diatribe against teachers’ unions,” blaming his rant on “mental and hormonal aberrations associated with male menopause.” The press release says he should experience a full and rapid recovery and that his condition should have no further deleterious effects on his ability to run Apple, Inc.

  7. We’re 52 Steve, yeah, it sucks.
    Hang in there and live forever! OR at least don’t die before I do!

    Can’t imagine the mac experience without you. I already had to live through that once, don’t let me do it again. Thanks for delivering us all from Winduhz.

    MDN Magic world; “develop” –best computers ever developed.

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