Steve Jobs was an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s who, along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, founded Apple Computer. Before and after his death in 2011, Jobs was known as a counter-culture figure within the computer industry, and as a perfectionist who could be demanding of his colleagues and employees—sometimes to the point of cruelty.
Jobs's official biographer, Walter Isaacson, described him as a "creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing".[1]
1984: Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer by Michael Swaine and Paul Frieberger[2] (Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, second edition, 2000[3] and Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer, third edition, 2014;[4] the basis for the 1999 film, Pirates of Silicon Valley by Martyn Burke).[4]
1988: Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward by Jeffrey S. Young[5]
1988: Accidental millionaire: the rise and fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer by Lee Butcher.
1992: "The Paperback Computer". Part three of the five-part documentary The Machine That Changed the World prominently featured Jobs and his role in the early days of Apple.
1996: Triumph of the Nerds, directed by Paul Sen, written and narrated by Robert X. Cringely. The film contains clips of interviews with Jobs conducted by Cringely in 1995.
2011: Steve Jobs: One Last Thing, a documentary film produced by PBS.[15] A slightly shortened and localized[16] version of the show was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom the following day titled, Steve Jobs: iChanged the World.[17][18]
2011: American animated sitcom South Park parodies Jobs as a maniac who kidnaps one of the characters to be a part of a "HumancentiPad" in the season 15 episode "HumancentiPad".
2017: Jobs's 80s appearance was referenced in the video game Computer Tycoon; however he sports a blonde haircut rather than his black haircut.[24][25]
2018: "Steve Jobs: Reboot!", an episode of Over My Dead Body. Jobs is the subject of a parody post-death interview on Amazon Prime TV comedy series.[26]
1997: An early version of Apple's "Think different" ad was narrated by Jobs but never released on television.[29]
1999: Noah Wyle, who played Jobs in the 1999 film Pirates of Silicon Valley, appeared on stage at the 1999 Macworld as Steve Jobs, before being joined by Jobs himself.[30]
^Freiberger, Paul; Swaine, Michael (1984). Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer: Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN9780881341218.
^Levy, Steven (2000). INSANELY GREAT: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything: Steven Levy: Amazon.com: Books. ISBN9780670852444.
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