Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) was a co-founder and chief executive of Apple who led the development of products such as the Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone.
Every Apple ad and official screenshot of an iPhone shows the exact same time: 9:41. During the original 2007 keynote, Steve Jobs unveiled the device exactly 41 minutes in, so Apple has frozen every marketing image at that moment ever since.
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The Command key symbol ⌘ on Mac keyboards exists because Steve Jobs refused to let the Apple logo appear on every menu. Designer Susan Kare found it by flipping through a symbol dictionary — a Nordic campground sign meaning 'point of interest.'
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In 1957, a blind boy named Joe Engressia with perfect pitch discovered that whistling a 2600Hz tone into a telephone could manipulate the phone system. This became known as 'phreaking.' Among the next generation it inspired were Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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