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February 24, 2007

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They say it’s your birthday; we’re gonna have a good time

Posted Feb. 24, ’07, 9:20 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » Steve Jobs

Happy Birthday, SteveWe’ve noted a lot of important birthdays: March 24th (OS X); April 1st (Apple Inc.); April 28th (yours truly…and the iTunes Store. Fine.). But none—with the exception of perhaps the last—can really hold a candle to today. February 24th.

Because, 52 years ago today, Steven Paul Jobs first came into this world. Sure, he wouldn’t found Apple until in his twenties; wouldn’t meet Steve Wozniak until his high school years; wouldn’t even be bitten by the radioactive mongoose that would grant him his fabled reality distortion field until his journeys through India in the ’70s.

But still, today is important. A world without Jobs would be a world without Apple, a world in which we’d all potentially still be using command-line OSes, where computers would be the province of a merely a few, and where—most importantly—I would probably not have this job.

So raise a glass of the beverage of your choice to the Steve today.


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