
This animated slideshow depicts many of Steve Jobs’ greatest moments.
The following key events in Steve Jobs’s life have been featured in the animated bio by Quartsoft:
- One of the first days of Steve’s life with his biological mother and father in San Francisco (1955)
- Baby Steve with his adoptive parents (1955)
- Jobs family moving from San Francisco to Mountain View, California (1961)
- Steve’s father is showing him how to work on electronics (1961)
- Steve’s 4th-grade teacher Imogene Hill bribing him back into learning with candy and money (1965)
- Steve Jobs looking at HP 9100A – the first desktop computer in his life (1968)
- Bill Fernandez introducing Steve to his neighbor Steve Wozniak (1971)
- Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs using a “blue box” designed by Wozniak to call Vatican City (1972)
- Steve Jobs enrolling at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (1972)
- Steve dropping out of college (1973)
- Steve still attending a course on calligraphy in college (1973)
- Steve’s first job at Atari (1974)
- Steve Jobs’s spiritual trip to India with his friend Daniel Kottke (1974)
- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak selling their stuff to get the first money they needed to print out Apple I circuit boards (1976)
- Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founding Apple Computers (1976)
- Jobs and Wozniak are presenting their computer to the Homebrew Computer Club (1976)
- Steve Jobs talking with Paul Terrell about the possibility of selling the Apple I kits in his computer store (1976)
- Jobs and Wozniak negotiating the purchase of $15,000 worth of parts needed to fill the Byte Shop order on credit at Cramer Electronics (1976)
- The Apple Computer team assembling 50 computers for The Byte Shop in the Jobs family garage (1976)
- Steve Jobs delivering the first 50 Apple computers to Paul Terrell (1976)
- Mike Markkula investing $92,000 in Apple for about a third ownership in the company (1977)
- Steve Jobs presenting the Apple II at the first West Coast Computer Faire (1977)
- Steve Jobs is visiting Xerox PARC with a group of Apple engineers and executives in exchange for 100 000 Apple shares at about $10 each (1979)
- Jobs working with the Lisa project team (1981)
- Jobs attending the annual International Design Conference in Aspen to get inspired with the spare and functional design philosophy of the Bauhaus movement (1981)
- Jobs working with the Macintosh project team (1983)
- Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing the Mac GUI and future cooperation between Apple and Microsoft (1983)
- Jobs offering the position of Apple’s CEO to Pepsi-Cola president John Sculley (1983)
- The Macintosh launch event (1984)
- CEO John Sculley and the board firing Steve from Apple (1985)
- Establishing NeXT Inc. (1985)
- Buying the computer division of George Lucas’ ILM for $10 million and incorporating it as Pixar (1986)
- Jobs introducing the NeXT cube computer (1988)
- Negotiating a cooperation agreement between Pixar and Disney (1991)
- Visiting the Pixar team working on the Toy Story animated film (1995)
- Steve Jobs returning to Apple as an “informal adviser” to CEO Gil Amelio (1996)
- Becoming an interim CEO of Apple (1997)
- The peace pact between Apple and Microsoft and the Microsoft’s $150 million investment in Apple (1997)
- Jobs discussing design of the iMac computer with Jony Ive (1997)
- Steve Jobs introducing Apple’s revolutionary iMac at the Flint Center auditorium in Cupertino (1998)
- The iPod team sharing ideas on the product with Steve Jobs (2001)
- Steve Jobs introducing iPod (2001)
- Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (2003)
- Jobs is on a secret meeting discussing the multi-touch technology for the future Apple’s cell phone (2005)
- Steve Jobs introducing iPhone (2007)
- Steve Jobs selecting the right size of the future iPad (2007)
- Steve Jobs introducing iPad (2010)
- Steve Jobs dies at 56 on October 5, 2011
Watch the entire Steve Jobs Animated Biography, featuring these key events in his life:
For the true Apple die-hards, here’s a bonus infographic with some extra highlights of Steve Jobs’ life:
Authors
Idea and animation: Dmitriy Nesterov
Illustrator: Helen Stoyka
Music: SaReGaMa
Learn more about Steve Jobs by visiting http://quartsoft.com/blog/201510/animated-biography-steve-jobs.
Content used with permission. Originally published on Quartsoft.
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