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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Claude Shannon, Tim Berners-Lee, Douglas Engelbart, Vannevar Bush, William Gibson, Ted Nelson, Jon Postel, Vint Cerf, Joyce K. Reynolds, Steve Jobs, Paul Baran, Samir Arora, Ken McCarthy, J. C. R. Licklider, Robert Taylor, Farouk Kamoun, Marc Andreessen, Bob Kahn, Dave Raggett, Leonard Kleinrock, Lawrence Roberts, Jaime Levy Russell, Robert Cailliau, Gene Spafford, Donald Davies, David Bohnett, Stacy Horn, Raymond Spencer Rodgers, Marc Stiegler, Ivan Pope, Alan Emtage, David D. Clark, Runet Prize, Stephen Wolff, Mark P. McCahill, Jon Mittelhauser, David L. Mills, John Shoch, Stig Harder, Peter T. Kirstein, Douglas Comer, Van Jacobson, Geoff Goodfellow, Eric Bina, Michael Silverton, Bismarck Lepe, Ed Krol, John Curran, Nicola Pellow, Rick Gates, Pei-Yuan Wei, Charles M. Stack, Kevin Hughes, Carl Barker. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as an executive producer. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1984, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and bus...
