Time Line

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][icon_timeline timeline_style=”jstime” timeline_line_style=”dashed” timeline_line_color=”#d6d6d6″ custom_width=”200″][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”1955-1985 Youth & Apple’s early years”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Feb 1955″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]
Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah and Joanne. He is adopted by Jobs Family[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1969″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”1 Apr 1976″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Spring 1976″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Steve and Woz start assembling Apple I computers in the Jobses’ garage, and sell them to computer hobbyists, including 50 for the Byte Shop[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”12 Dec 1980″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Apple goes public, increasing Steve Jobs’ net worth from dozens of millions of dollars to over $200 million[/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Feb 1982″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

A portrait of Steve Jobs ends up on the cover of Time Magazine, under the title ‘Striking it Rich’.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”8 Apr 1983″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple’s CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”24 Jan 1984″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Macintosh is launched in great fanfare at Apple’s annual shareholder meeting[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”17 Sep 1985″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”1986-1996 NeXT Pixar & wilderness”][icon_timeline_item time_title=”30 Jan 1986″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas’ ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar.[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”12 Oct 1988″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]Steve Jobs introduces the NeXT Cube in San Francisco to great critical acclaim, pitching it as a workstation for higher education

[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Apr 1989″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Steve Jobs is named ‘Entrepreneur of the decade’ by Inc. magazine[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”18 Mar 1991″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of Steve’s old zen guru Kobin Chino. Laurene is already pregnant[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_feat time_title=”29 Nov 1995″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs’s worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple[/icon_timeline_feat][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Early 1996″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Steve Jobs negotiates a breakthrough deal between Pixar and Disney with its CEO Michael Eisner. The deal includes landmark rights for a studio, such as equal billing[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_item time_title=”Dec 1996″ icon_type=”noicon” img_width=”48″ icon_size=”32″ icon_color=”#de5034″ icon_style=”circle” icon_color_bg=”#ffffff” icon_color_border=”#dbdbdb” icon_border_size=”1″ icon_border_radius=”500″ icon_border_spacing=”50″ time_read_text=”Read More”]

Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named “informal adviser” to Apple CEO Gil Amelio[/icon_timeline_item][icon_timeline_sep time_sep_title=”to be continued…”][/icon_timeline][/vc_column][/vc_row]