Happy 56th birthday, Steve Jobs!

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Apple co-founder Steve JobsHappy Birthday, Steve! Today is Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs’ 56th 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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    1. There are tens of thousands who pray for the very best for Steve Jobs, we love you man …..

      You and your products have enhanced and made millions of millions of people happy and productive …..

      Apple always was the little engine that could …. I think I speak for all when we say …..

      THANK YOU MR. JOBS for the very bottom of our heart, for we too, like you LOVE APPLE and all it stands for!

      God Bless

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  13. Thank you for changing the world again and again. Your products have changed the trajectory of my life several times, in very significant ways. I simply wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now if it wasn’t for the Mac, the iPhone, and the overall philosophy woven through Apple. I’ve learned so much.

    Happy birthday, and get better soon.

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  20. Happy birthday from another born in 1955. May you have many more.

    Our many thanks to Steve Jobs mom and his parents that chose to adopt him. The world is a better place because of the choices you made long ago.

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