Legender man Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He died in october 2011. In a brief statement, Apple announced the death but did not say where he died. Mr. Jobs, who suffered from a rare form of pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant in 2009, stepped down as Apple’s chief executive on Aug. 24.
Mr. Steve Jobs was the first crossover technology star, turning Silicon Valley renown into Main Street recognition and paving the way for the rise of the nerds, Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In the early 1980′s, my very first personal computer was the Apple IIe. Perhaps, like the excitement of young people owning their first iPod or iPad today, this meant a lot to me then, as I started my earliest years as a newbie in information technology, with much excitement in the company of my Apple
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