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24th of February-Birthday of Steve Jobs

24 February 2017 - 10:39 | Interesting information
24th of February-Birthday of Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American entrepreneur, businessman, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Steven Paul Jobs was born in 1955 24th of February in San Francisco.

Wozniak had designed a low-cost digital "blue box" to generate the necessary tones to manipulate the telephone network, allowing free long-distance calls. Jobs decided that they could make money selling it. The clandestine sales of the illegal "blue boxes" went well and perhaps planted the seed in Jobs's mind that electronics could be both fun and profitable.In 1976 they created “Apple Computer Co” company.

Six months later, Wozniak and Jobs, introduced the Apple II which is the world's first mass personal computer. In the late 80s the company already was beginning to be recognized at the national level. 25-year-old Jobs had $ 200 million in private capital.

In 2007, the worldwide iPhone sales were launched. The following year, the head of the company demonstrated the world's thinnest notebook - the MacBook Air.

In 2011, 5th of October Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.