Happy Birthday, Steve! Today is Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs’ 55th 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, 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, [Mac OS X, the iPod, and the iPhone]. 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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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
From one Steve to another, Happy Birthday! (what a great name)
And to celebrate, MDN released an update to their iPhone app.
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Happy birthday Steve Jobs!
Hippy burpday to you!
Squashed tomatoes and stew,
Bread and butter in the gutter,
Hippy burpday to you!
Belated wishes to Steve J, I hope you had a Hippy, Hippy Burpday.
Just goes to shows how much the world has changed in the past 35 years.
Congratulations & Happy Birthday Steve Jobs,
We the people are proud of United States ‘Work Product’ with NO HELP from the U.S. Government who take their orders from the ‘Bilderberg’ MASTERS ! (The New World Order)
Think about IT ?
Charles B. Pittinger WWII Vet.