On February 24, 1955, a baby boy was born in San Francisco and adopted just days later by a working-class couple named Paul and Clara Jobs. They named him Steven Paul. Growing up in California, young Steve loved taking apart radios and bikes in his garage. He had a knack for both art and electronics, a rare combination that would shape the rest of his life. He dropped out of college after one semester, but kept sneaking into classes that interested him, including a calligraphy class that later inspired the beautiful fonts on Apple computers.
In 1976, when he was just 21, Steve teamed up with his nerdy friend Steve Wozniak to build a small home computer in Steve Jobs's parents' garage. They sold the first machines, called the Apple I, for $666.66 each. Their company, Apple, grew like wildfire. Jobs was famous for being demanding, picky, and obsessed with making products look as good as they worked. He got kicked out of his own company in 1985, started other companies including the animation studio Pixar (which made 'Toy Story'), and then came back to Apple to save it from going broke.
Under his second run at Apple, the world got the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, each one changing how people listen to music, take photos, talk to friends, and play games. He died in 2011, but billions of people still tap, swipe, and FaceTime on devices he dreamed up. The kid who built a computer in his garage helped fit the whole digital world into our pockets.
