Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on 24 February 1955. Was an American
businessman and inventor. Father of the first personal computer and founder of Apple
Computer. But what is the story of Steve Jobs?
Steve was adopted by a new family. His biological parents were two young university
students who could not support him. From 1961, the Jobs family lived in the small
Californian town of Mountain View, a major center of the US electronics industry. At the age
of twelve he joined the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club, a youth association in which
Hewlett-Packard engineers taught children and young people about the latest developments in
the field of computing. After graduating from high school at Homestead High School in
Mountain View, Steve Jobs entered Reed College, a liberal arts university in Portland,
Oregon, but dropped out a semester later.
In 1974 he met the co-founder of his future company, the engineer Stephen Wozniak. In Jobs'
garage they created the Apple I, considered the first personal computer in history. In 1976,
with the money from the sale of their Volkswagen van, they founded Apple Computer, based
in the Jobs family garage. Steve Jobs chose the name Apple as a reminder of the times when
he worked as a picker of his favorite fruit, the apple.
Steve Jobs and his company have revolutionized the technology industry. With the creation
of the Macintosh and the iPhone. Unfortunately Steve was diagnosed with cancer and was
unable to work for some time. But that didn't stop him and he kept innovating. With the
creation of the iPad. Steve Jobs presented the second version, the iPad 2, in March 2011, in
what was to be one of his last public appearances.
On 5 October 2011, at the age of 56, he died at his home in Palo Alto, a victim of the
progression of the cancer he had been diagnosed with in 2003.