On this date, April 1st 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak form Apple Computer Corporation in Job's garage.

The Apple I computer was introduced that same year and was marketed at a price of $666.66, in an inside joke reference to the phone number of Wozniak's Dial-A-Joke machine. The Apple II, which became a huge commerical success in the home computer market, was unveiled in 1977. In 1980 the IPO made Apple Computer a publicly traded corporation. Within three years, Jobs was able to convince John Sculley of Pepsi-Cola to run Apple. His confrontational invitation is now legendary. Jobs asked, "Do you want to just sell sugared water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?"

The commercially unsuccessful Apple Lisa is introduced in 1983. The Macintosh followed one year later in 1984 and was the first personal computer based on a GUI user interface. Its resounding success led Apple to abandon the Apple II product line in favor of the Mac product line, which continues to this day.

In 1985 Sculley ousted Jobs from Apple. While in exile, Jobs founded NeXT Computer. NeXT was technologically advanced, but it never became popular. Its development did, however, faciliate the advancement of technologies such as object-oriented programming.

In 1986 Jobs acquired the computer animation studio, Pixar, from its creator George Lucas for $10 million. Pixar has created five of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Academy Award ®-winning Toy Story (1995); A Bug's Life (1998); Golden Globe-winner Toy Story 2 (1999); Monsters, Inc. (2001); and Finding Nemo (2003). Pixar's five films have earned more than $2.0 billion at the worldwide box office to date.

In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $402 million, and in 1997 Jobs resumed the helm as interim CEO with an annual salary of $1. Jobs brought Apple back from its doldrums with the eventual introduction of the iMac. The iMac would be the first computer marketed on its looks. After returning Apple to profitabilty in the year 2000, Apple dropped the "interim" from Jobs' title. Steve Jobs continues to work for Apple at the $1/year rate and stock options. Apple's recent contributions include electronics and music with the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes digital music software and iTunes Music Store.

Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his wife and three of his four children.