History of Apple

 The story of Steve Jobs and the company he founded

Our huge, comprehensive rundown of Apple's history will take you from its origins in the 1970s, Jobs' departure and later return to Apple. Follow the Apple story with us!

In this feature we tell the story of Apple. We start with the early days, the tale of how Apple was founded, moving on through the Apple I, to the Apple II, the launch of the Macintosh and the revolution in the DTP industry... To the tech-industry behemoth that we know and love today.

So sit back as we take a stroll down memory lane. Why not brush up on what really happened before you go and watch the Steve Jobs movie, with its interesting interpretations of several important events in the company's history?

On 1 April 1976 Apple was founded, making the company 41 years old as of the 1 April 2017 - here's a historical breakdown of the company.

The history of Apple

Our Apple history feature includes information about The foundation of Apple and the years that followed, we look at How Jobs met Woz and Why Apple was named Apple. The Apple I and The debut of the Apple II. Apple's visit to Xerox, and the one-button mouse. The story of The Lisa versus the Macintosh. Apple's '1984' advert, directed by Ridley Scott. The Macintosh and the DTP revolution. Read more: The Mac's Birthday .

We go on to examine what happened between Jobs and Sculley, leading to Jobs departure from Apple, and what happened during The wilderness years: when Steve Jobs wasn't at Apple, including Apple's decline and IBM and Microsoft's rise and how Apple teamed up with IBM and Motorola and eventually Microsoft. And finally, The return of Jobs to Apple.

The foundation of Apple

The history of everyone's favorite start-up is a tech fairytale of one garage, three friends and very humble beginnings. But we're getting ahead of ourselves…

The two Steves - Jobs and Wozniak - may have been Apple's most visible founders, but were it not for their friend Ronald Wayne there might be no iPhone, iPad or iMac today. Jobs convinced him to take 10% of the company stock and act as an arbiter should he and Woz come to blows, but Wayne backed out 12 days later, selling for just $500 a holding that would have been worth $72bn 40 years later.

The Apple Logo

There are other theories about the meaning behind the name Apple. The idea that it was named thus because Newton was inspired when an Apple fell out of a tree hitting him on the head, is backed up by the fact that the original Apple logo was a rather complicated illustration of Newton sitting under a tree.

Later the company settled on the bite out of an Apple design for Apple's logo - a far simpler logo design. These logos are probably the reason for other theories about the meaning behind the name Apple, with some suggesting that the Apple logo with a chunk taken out of it is a nod at computer scientist and Enigma code-breaker, Alan Turing, who committed suicide by eating a cyanide infused apple.

However, according to Rob Janoff, the designer who created the logo, the Turing connection is simply "a wonderful urban legend."

Equally the bite taken out of the Apple could represent the story of Adam and Eve from the Old Testament. The idea being that the Apple represents knowledge

Facebook History

Zuckerberg

Founded on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook has rapidly become one of the biggest social networking sites in the world. Within the year, the social networking site accrued over 1 million users - which has since grown exponentially to hit over 2 billion in 2018. 

But how did this college startup become one of the world's largest companies, with a presence in dozens of countries worldwide? 

ccording to Divya Narendra and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Zuckerberg reneged on an agreement to help them build their own social media site at Harvard - and, instead, used the code and idea to inspire the creation of Facebook. And while the dispute was eventually settled in 2008, Facebook's inception was clouded in questions. 

But before there was Facebook, there was Facemash. 

In 2003, as a sophomore, Zuckerberg created a site that compared the pictures of different Harvard students' faces and allowed users to rate the attractiveness of those pictures - attracting 450 people to vote 22,000 times. However, because Zuckerberg violated the school's policy by hacking into the school's system to acquire photos for the site, it was shut down quickly by the university - within two days. Still, Zuckerberg avoided expulsion. However, Facemash's success sparked the idea for Facebook - a social networking site where students at Harvard could use their ".edu" email addresses and photos to connect with other students at the school.Along with Moskovitz, Saverin, and Hughes, Zuckerberg created the address thefacebook.com in February of 2004, and it began to spread like wildfire at Harvard - and then Stanford, Yale, and Columbia by March of that year. 

Let's break it down.

• February 2004 - Facebook (then called "thefacebook") was founded by Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, Saverin, and Hughes.

• March 2004 - Facebook spreads to three other college campuses - Yale, Columbia, and Stanford. 

• June 2004 - Facebook moves its headquarters to Palo Alto, California. 

• September 2004 - The site launches the now-infamous "wall" - which allows users to post things and receive messages on their own page. 

• December 2004 - Facebook hits 1 million users. 

• May 2005 - Facebook expands to over 800 college campuses. 

• September 2005 - The site expands to high school networks. It also drops the "the" to become just "Facebook." 

• October 2005 - Facebook adds photos and goes international.

• December 2005 - Facebook has over 6 million users.

• April 2006 - Facebook goes mobile.

• September 2006 - Anyone can now join Facebook.

• December 2006 - Membership increases to 12 million.

• June 2007 - Video launches.

• December 2007 - Membership increases to 58 million.

• July 2008 - Launch of Facebook for iPhone. 

• February 2009 - The "like" button is introduced.

• July 2010 - Over 500 million users are active on Facebook.

• August 2010 - Engineering center is opened in Seattle.

• October 2010 - Groups are launched.

• April 2011 - Data center opens in Prineville, Oregon. 

• July 2011 - Video calling is launched.

• April 2012 - Acquisition of Instagram is announced.

• May 2012 - Facebook releases their IPO - which raised $16 billion and gave the company a $102.4 billion market value.

• October 2012 - Membership hits the 1 billion mark.

• February 2013 - Acquisition of Atlas is announced. 

• June 2013 - Facebook's acquisition of Instagram launches video. 

• February 2014 - Acquisition of WhatsApp is announced.

• March 2014 - Acquisition of Oculus is announced.

• November 2014 - Groups App is announced. 

• April 2015 - Over 40 million small business pages are on Facebook.

• June 2015 - Facebook's AI Research opens in Paris.

• February 2016 - Facebook's Reactions launches. 

• July 2016 - Over 1 billion users of Messenger a month.

• October 2016 - Marketplace launches - allowing users to buy and sell products.

• April 2017 - F8 developer's conference is held in San Jose by Facebook.

• March 2018 - Facebook sued by shareholders following stock plummet.

• April 2018 - Zuckerberg testifies before Congress regarding concerns over data and privacy breaches.

• September 2018 - Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifies before Congress alongside Twitter (TWTR) - Get Report executives.

Bill Gates

 What is the story of Bill Gates?

Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III, (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), American computer programmer and entrepreneur who cofounded Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest personal-computer software company.

Bill Gates is worth roughly $133 billion as of Jan. 13, 2021. 1 He earned the bulk of his fortune as CEO, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft (MSFT). Gates stepped down as chairman in 2014, but still owns 1.34% of the company he co-founded.

In 1975, the MITS Altair 8800 was released based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw the opportunity to start their own computer software company. Gates dropped out of Harvard that same year. His parents were supportive of him after seeing how much he wanted to start his own company.

160 IQ, Bill Gates is continuously standing number 1 as world billionaire in the world by Forbes magazine. His IQ Test score is 160 IQ, Bill Gates is a billionaire who always contribute to the world and do charity frequently.

Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, with an amazing and supportive family who encouraged his interest in computers at an early age. He dropped out of college to start Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.

Career highlights: Microsoft, Bill & Melinda Gat...

Married to: Melinda French Gates

Children: Three

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