August 11th, 1950: Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak is born

February 24th, 1955: Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs is born in Los Altos, CA.

1972: After finishing High School Jobs starts attending lectures at Hewlett-Packard. He is hired by Hewlett-Packard as summer employee where he meets the HP employee Steve Wozniak who just dropped out of University of California. Woz[niak] is a brilliant engineer, a skill he uses for constructing and selling illegal self-made devices, allowing the user to make free long-distance calls. Steve Jobs helps Woz to sell a few of these devices to fellow students. Steve Jobs registers at Reeds College in Oregon but drops out after only one semester.

Early 1974: Jobs gets a job at Atari, Inc. as a video game designer. He saves the money he earns for a trip to India where he searches for spiritual enlightenment.

Autumn 1974: After returning from India, Jobs is invited by Wozniak to join the 'Homebrew Computer Club', held at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where electronic-enthusiasts met, sharing knowledge and helping each other with their self-made computers. While Woz just enjoys creating electronic devices, Jobs has an eye for the marketablilty of personal computers. Jobs persuades Wozniak to build a personal computer with him. Woz agrees, although in his eyes on a "hobby, for-fun basis" and not for making money, as he later emphasizes¹.

1975: Jobs and Wozniak begin working on the Apple I in Jobs' bedroom. Every two weeks, they present their latest improvements of their design to the members of the Homebrew Computer Club.